Octyma Car Braking Caliper by Brembo S.p.a. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Platinum A' Design Award in Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design Competition Category.
PlatinumVehicle Accessory· 2024
Octyma Car Braking Caliper
Client: Brembo S.p.A.
Platinum A' Design Award Winner in Vehicle Accessory Category
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About Octyma Car Braking Caliper
Octyma is a brake caliper developed for high performance cars. Octyma has eight pistons arranged in a cross layout. The cross layout optimizes pad pressure distribution and improves braking performance. The caliper is made of high quality cast aluminum, and an optimized casting process supports durability. Taut lines give the caliper a sporty character, and careful detailing creates an elegant result. Four colors are available: yellow, red, carbon bronze and black. The colors bring out the shape and define the character of the caliper.
The Recognition
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Octyma Car Braking Caliper is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Octyma Car Braking Caliper exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Octyma Car Braking Caliper is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
Where to Get It
High-Performance Automotive Braking Systems
We engineer cutting-edge braking solutions that transform vehicle performance. Our innovative systems combine Italian design excellence with advanced technology, delivering superior stopping power for the world's most demanding automotive applications. From motorsport champions to luxury vehicles, we turn energy into inspiration.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main inspiration is to combine Brembo style and identity with innovation & performance. Brembo vision “Turning energy into inspiration” was also a driver for the design of this caliper: we innovate to inspire the future through tailored solution.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Octyma has been exclusively designed for the new Range Rover Sport SV, Range Rover’s high-performance Modern Luxury flagship. It’s a front caliper distinguished by its innovative cross layout for the 8 pistons, guaranteeing maximum braking efficiency.
The design has been developed to make the cross layout, which is the most distinctive element of this solution, as visible as possible. On one hand, the design successfully highlights the technological innovation and the identity of Brembo; on the other hand, it harmonizes with the sporty vehicle and the values of the Jaguar Land Rover customer for which this specific caliper is designed. The design communicates power and style.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Celebrating the winning and add it to the list of awards won by Brembo for product design, by sharing this achievement with our customer Jaguar Land Rover and through our social media channels.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Octyma is eight pistons brake caliper that blends style, design, identity with functionality. It optimizes pad pressure distribution thanks innovative cross layout of pistons improving braking performance. It has taut lines, designed to lend sporty character and is marked by attention to detail that ensures an elegant solution. It’s made even more exclusive by using specific colors: yellow, red, carbon bronze and black. The color brings out the shape and helps define the caliper’s personality.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 434mm x 151mm x 188mm
Before mass production, static and dynamic bench tests ensure the durability and performance requested which are than optimize with extensive road tests in every condition in order to improve comforts by assessing the response on specific application in real life use.
The aesthetic is guaranteed by a strong validation plan of surface treatment, that ensures colour stability and great performance in different environmental conditions.
434mm x 151mm x 188mm
Before mass production, static and dynamic bench tests ensure the durability and performance requested which are than optimize with extensive road tests in every condition in order to improve comforts by assessing the response on specific application in real life use.
The aesthetic is guaranteed by a strong validation plan of surface treatment, that ensures colour stability and great performance in different environmental conditions. - Tags
- Brembo, Octyma, Caliper, Cutting Edge Content, Performance, Design, Distinctiveness, Energy, Purity, Turning Energy Into Inspiration
- Production Technology
- Octyma caliper showcases cutting-edge design merging mechatronics knowledge, hand sketches, and 3D modeling. Its development undergoes a meticulous internal process from research to testing. Crafted from high quality cast aluminum, optimized casting ensures durability. Its striking five colors, meticulously defined with the customers specifications, is achieved through a dedicated painting technique, enhancing its aesthetic appeal and guaranteeing exceptional performance in every conditions.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge has been emerged Brembo’s values and design language with the customer specific and strong design language by working together. We were able to identify and translate the common values into strong design language that beautifully sculpted the final product.
- Research
- A dedicated design research was carried out on the distinctive styling cues of the customer brand, its market positioning and the values that the brand intends to communicate to the consumer. The outcomes of the study showed that details can make difference: it is known that, when choosing a car, the JLR average customer is keen on aesthetic, which also includes the braking system.
- Inspiration
- Brembo vision is turning energy into inspiration: we innovate to inspire the future through tailored solution. Octyma, from the Latin octo, indicates the number of pistons, but a figure of eight also symbolizes infinity and a constant flow of energy and power that represents balance and harmony. It has been exclusively designed for the new Range Rover Sport SV and Modern Luxury flagship.
- Project Duration
- First sketches of the project were drafted in 2018 determining the beginning project. Brembo completed the project in May 2023 with the official launch of the vehicle on the market.
- Operation Flow
- Octyma is a brake caliper which is coupled with Brembo discs and assembled directly on the front vehicle corner. By pressing the pedal, the fluid flows inside the caliper inducing pressure on pistons, that squeeze the pads against the disc and generate friction to slow down the vehicle. It guarantees the highest vehicle deceleration and enhances driving experience thanks to the innovative 8-pistons cross layout which optimizes pad pressure distribution and braking efficiency.
- Patents
- Patented. Patent No. 102015000073426 (Italy). Brembo S.p.A. 2015. Extended USA (US11384804), China (CN108291595), Japan (JP6875396) and Germany (DE112016005268).
Ornamental model. no. 402019000000299 (Italy). Brembo S.p.A. 2019. Extended to USA (29/702030), China (201930444969.1), Europe (EP 006686770). - Team Members
- Brembo
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