Pininfarina has released a further series of slides today that offer greater detail to its 78th Geneva Motor Show-bound Sintesi concept car project, revealing the futuristic design thinking behind the designers' work that has been enabled by its use of new technologies.

In a step-by-step unveiling prior to its debut at the Swiss show Pininfarina has outlined over the last month details of its ground breaking Sintesi project. Today, under the title "Living Material", it has got under the skin of the project for the first time and has explained how it sees the challenge of chassis structures evolving as vehicles begin to incorporate a new generation of technologies (fuel cells and batteries) that in turn allow for radical new packaging methods to be used.

Pininfarina sees fuel cells and batteries "enabling a more sophisticated and integrated use of space. They allow to create shapes giving more freedom to designers. Therefore rather than creating a car around the composition of the different mechanics such as the engine, the definition of the volume of the car starts from the inner space we wish to create around the user." This concept extends to the integration of the powertrain components into the radical new structure of the car.