The Ikarus 280 was the articulated bus of the Eastern Bloc: two flat-sided steel boxes joined by a rubber accordion, built in Budapest from 1973 and shipped by the tens of thousands to Hungary, the GDR and the Soviet Union. Windows so large the whole flank reads as glass sitting on a painted band.

This system takes its structure from that body. A high beltline splits every surface into two unequal parts — silver grey above, sapphire blue below. Panels repeat at the pitch of window bays, headers behave like destination boards, and corners stay square. Nothing here is streamlined, because the bus never was.