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efficiency at work, accentuating and promoting value and worth in no other way than through its raw functional makeup. Whilst
the deck-house is not an organic
aesthetic, the twin underwater hull technology supplies an aesthetic motion and is a practical foundation for superstructure in its batch build, that is crucially in this case, well-proportioned and balanced.
3.2 THE OASIS OF THE SEAS
The Oasis of the Seas, has the function of transporting vast numbers of paying passengers around islands for the recreational experience and has an initial rectilinear forward kinetic appearance. Figure 3 shows the gestalt, 1 and the other functions noted as 2, where focus in 3, leads to topside parts that look awkwardly tied to her main hull. Architecture is fractured, projecting out, and seems to be unsecure for the speeds that are represented in the rake of the topside.
The functional beauty analogy directs us to use an
observer perspective to explore the intrinsic function: The overall appearance of a utility in the vessel, is confused with the external mess, her purpose appears unrefined, uncaring and purporting to a lack of valuable quality throughout. It goes beyond a subconscious notion of a weak structural securing of the hold. Passenger gaze may be driven to other parts more congruous in the gestalt or more agreeable, like the bow stem or forecastle, and the multiple facilities, create a disinterest in further examination of the functions in the fractured topside.
The horizontally slatted surrounds at the base of the
funnels stand out and look like the heat sumps on an electrical device. The chromic metal cylinders poking out of the top, conversely to their surrounds look flimsy and a compromise on those qualities of the ship’s power. The bunching or grouping of these pipes, not fitting with the aesthetics of the solid steel hull or of the solid corners of the superstructure, are lost amidst the glazed units at the top of the ship. The additional buildings on the top decks
The Oasis’s seemingly superficial protrusions to the overall take the observer away from a functional truth about the primary function of the ship. Removing additional elements that might supply a line that conveys the primary meaning of transport and protection from the environment, and it is apparent that design has neglected to sensitively consider the symbiosis of the two functions through the design process - which is evident in the crude and economic connection between technology for propulsion at sea.
habitats and
Those functions that are unknown, i.e. luxury interiors are not portrayed in the architecture of the exterior. The internal open air space is conversely considerate to human scale, in the exterior gestalt though, and overall form. Distraction moves any gestalt geometry away from a unified functional beauty. Rake does not resemble speed, and fractured architecture does not display the clever use of interior space. Mental well-being through itinerary and vista is not a characteristic in the exterior gestalt for social and communal membership and human proportions seem to be lost in her gigantic scale [8].
seem to be bit-parts, limbs, antenna and additional parcels giving an incongruity to any anatomical form.
Figure 4. The Oasis of the Seas Maiden Voyage,
http://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/oasis-of-the-seas/ May 2011
Figure 3. Oasis of the Seas illustrated, side view C-40 ©2012: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects
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