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facilitate the specification requirements. This involved a people flow analysis of the GA with user scenarios at different times of day. Significant research was carried out into contemporary interior design, resulting in a range of mood boards for several themes and the key interior
3.1 EXTERIOR FORM AND GA DEVELOPMENT
The key objective of the interior design was to allude to the design heritage of the golden era of superliners such as the Normandie, by developing a sleek, streamlined dynamic shape. To communicate the speed and modernity of the design visual form techniques were used to
reduce the
superstructure and accentuate the perceived length of the vessel. To develop a
perceived form
visual mass of the with timeless design
communicating the capability and technology of the platform a simple form language was developed relating all the visual components.
The composite mood board is shown in Figure 5 visually communicating the three key design facets of the exterior form: aggression, precision,
power, streamline;
structural, organic, simple; architectural, cubism, minimalism. The first relates to the exterior form. This should convey a sense of power, presence and capability of
the innovative high speed pentamaran platform.
Emphasizing a sense of latent capability of speed when stationary. The third design facet relates to the interior, which should convey the contemporary feel of a high end office building and a hotel Having
repeated forms and large
in an integrated manner. expanses
of
architectural glass. The second facet of the design relates to the interconnection between the exterior and the interior.
The exterior form development is shown in Figure 6. Where the sleekness of the form is emphasised by boat tailing the rear of the vessel and sculpting the aft surfaces on the upper decks to visually connect with the feature on the main deck. Breaking the decks with full height architectural glass fore and aft, with the depth of deck side surface tapering from a thin lipped surface fore and aft to a full deck height surface at a third the length from the fore of each deck.
The surface form detail is shown in the CAD exterior model
in Figure 7, where form language giving vessel a the decks appear to be
suspended one on top of the other, due to small spacing between side deck structures. This architectural form with the flowing fore-section of each deck are connect by a simple but elegant
timeless appeal, while alluding the streamline modern design heritage of the vessel. The final exterior render in Figure 8 indicates that a focal point fore of the bow
Figure 8 Final Exterior Render Figure 6: Exterior form development
areas were developed and evaluated in the
context of the user persona demographics discussed in section 2.2.
Figure 5: Composite Mood Board
Figure 7 Final Exterior Form CAD surfacing
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