Audi QS-Sphere.

A seven-seat sphere.

QS-Sphere is an academic master’s project developed at Politecnico di Milano (Transportation & Automobile Design) — a study, not an Audi commission. The brief: imagine a large autonomous family EV under Audi’s future design language, and resolve it the whole way — exterior surface, seven-seat package, a lounge interior and a full CMF programme.

The exterior is a clean monovolume: a long 5,350 mm body on big wheels, a single sweeping shoulder, and a closed face split by a slim light blade over the four rings. Inside lives the Spacesphere concept — three rows of individual lounge seats around a central console, wrapped in glass and ambient light.

From sketch to package.

The form began on paper and moved straight into package. A 7-seat, three-row layout sets the hard points — wheelbase, seating eye-lines, glass and the long cab-forward monovolume — captured in the GM2 general-arrangement drawing before any surfacing.

Spacesphere — a lounge on rails.

With the driver optional, the cabin becomes a lounge. Spacesphere arranges six to seven individual seats around a low central spine, each with its own screen; a crystal selector and a Milan-mapped display anchor the front, and a single ambient line ties the whole interior together.

Glass architecture.

Coach-style doors open the whole side; with the glass house cut away, the three rows, the flat floor and the central electronics spine read as one clear architecture.

Colour & material.

The CMF programme runs two exterior colourways — a deep sage green and a graphite grey — against two cabin trims, a cool sage-grey and a warm sand. Studio boards lock the relationships before they meet the world.

Out in the world.

Final imagery places the QS-Sphere where a family SUV lives — coast roads at dusk, a city landmark, the open highway.