The emotional impression a car imprints on a potential buyer is as equally important for its commercial
success as fulfilling functional requirements. Hence, to create a positive emotional impression of a
vehicle, great effort is put into a car's styling process. One of the key aspects during the early stages of
the automotive design process is the convergence of styling and engineering design. While requirements
stemming from engineering design are usually characterised by quantitative values, styling requirements
are rather qualitative in nature. Converging these two requirement types is laborious. The present
publication focuses on supporting this process through Knowledge Based Engineering. This is achieved
by introducing a method which enables the designer to intuitively regard functional requirements during
the styling phase. Moreover, the method improves the process of technical requirement checks regarding
the shape and orientation of styling surfaces which exceed conventional package verifications
