The interaction of human and yacht interior: The relation between the physical discomfort and psychological discomfort

With the increasing scales and volumes, today the yachts have complex interior systems which the human and space interaction became more important issue than ever. Highly technological beings of yachts made them evaluated as floating machines. However the subject of human and space perception has a great number of research data which can be applied to the field of yacht design, the psychological needs of human which could be responded by the space were not taken into enough consideration while designing yacht interiors. In this paper the main load paths, the relation between psychological discomfort and physical discomfort in the scope of interior design features, will be explained. Different approaches from the architects who have applied the data of environmental psychology to the buildings to create unstressfull interiors for human will be given to support the concept development of future pleasure yachts. ©2011: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects