′80 Feet Sustainable Motoryacht: Technological Solutions Concept of the Living Spaces on Board

AbstractThe current development of new technologies in the nautical field has enabled the designers to transform and improve all the aspects related to ergonomics and comfort in internal yacht spaces, related to the different conditions of use of the product. The introduction and dissemination of new regulations governing the different ways of using the coast, combined with new production and storage technologies of “renewable” green energy sources, suggest us a new design approach no longer bound to traditional layout schemes, but based towards new layouts and new architectural languages. Yachts can be considered the testing ground for cutting-edge sustainable design solutions, aimed to improve the life quality on board, and to ensure the possibility of navigation in certain environmental contexts undergoing constraint[1]. The use of new technologies, innovative materials and advanced production processes, can generate new formal models, determine new spatial solutions, and enable the development of new concepts that allow the designers to respond to the demands of corporate representation, improving the relationship of the product with the reference context[2]. In these first phases, the research, conducted at the Architectural Department of the University “G.d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), reports a series of critical reflections related to the conscious design of the yacht living spaces, taking into account of various factors, such as: the environmental context, natural lighting and visual perception, on-board activities, management of the vessel, and hybrid propulsion systems