Barracuda Yacht Designs 50m Concept

Barracuda's 50m (164ft) concept was first unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show in September of last year, flat surfaces and gentle curves combine to create a sleek, bold and efficient megayacht. She has a narrow beam and a long waterline length, that offers fast and efficient performance contained within the 500 GRT rule.

She was designed to enter the market in the ever growing an popular 50m size range. You step on board via the starboard side doors to a lobby which leads to the main saloon and dining area. By turning right a corridor leads to four luxurious, equal size guest rooms located unusually on the main deck. Guests will avoid the usual climbing up and down stairs to the lower deck to reach there rooms.

The guest rooms will have plenty of incoming natural light from the large windows in the hull, as seen in the image above. Each guest room will have two of these windows, one of which can be lowered down fully to provide a balcony area.

 

The upper/bridge deck is entirely the owner’s space, with bedroom and office positioned amidships for best possible comfort and with a large private terrace aft. A private stairway leads up to a sheltered sun deck with Jacuzzi above.

An almost full beam width stern door acts as a large swimming platform with boarding steps behind where a beach club/gymnasium benefits from almost 180 degree views out the back and plenty of natural light from the windows on either side of the hull. She is a great concept that is sure to catch the eyes of potential owners looking at the 50m range megayacht.

 

Blohm+Voss & Zaha Hadid

Something big has been stirring over the last week throughout worldwide media. Some may say its weird, not realistic, ugly, crazy and not even know what it is from the top down view. We say its revolutionary, innovative, sexy and inspiring, that's the new design concept that has been designed by the renowned designer Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Blohm+Voss. 

The design concept which was launched at the latest exhibition of Zaha Hadid's work at the David Gill Gallery in London, is based around a master prototype for a 128m (420ft) megayacht. In addition, the Unique Circle Yachts by Zaha Hadid Architects for Blohm+Voss is a family of five individual 90m (295ft) megayachts.

The exoskeleton structure of the upper section is an interwoven network of supports that vary in thickness. Her exoskeleton takes on a similar structural system usually found in natural marine formations such a coral. This exoskeleton connects the various levels and decks in a seamlessly way. Traditional yacht designs keep to a strict horizontal order, Zaha Hadid has turned this order on its head and created an intense connectivity between the various decks. The design of the master prototype has been applied in different variations to the Unique Circle Yachts 90m (295ft) concepts.

The first of these concepts is the 90m (295ft) JAZZ which is equally as amazing as the master prototype seen above. Each of the concepts will be designed to fulfill the different requirements and individual requests of their destined owners.

"As a dynamic object that moves in dynamic environments, the design of a yacht must incorporate additional parameters beyond those for architecture – which all become much more extreme on water. Each yacht is an engineered platform that integrates specific hydrodynamic and structural demands together with the highest levels of comfort, spatial quality and safety." explained Zaha Hadid.

 
Dr. Herbert Aly, CEO and Managing Partner of Blohm+Voss says: "On an aesthetic level a superyacht is a great design task as everything is customised down to the last detail. A superyacht is by definition an exercise in total design, where every detail is looked at with attention and refinement. In the past, in the era of steam liners, there has been an attempt of utilising ship building elements in architecture. Zaha Hadid and her team have taken this ethos and created a bold new vision and a new benchmark in the design of superyachts."

He also adds: "The idea of the Unique Circle Yachts allows for variation of a genotype and its phenotypes, offering a range of possible solutions based on an cognate platform. As a result Zaha Hadid's design is malleable to suit the very individual wishes and needs of a potential customer which lies at the heart of Blohm+Voss' approach to yacht design. The strength of the design lies not just in its functionality and form, but also its effortless adaptability." 

Feadships Future Concept 2013

What can be said about the new Feadship future concept for 2013? Not much as feadship like to keep it as a guessing game until its finally unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show later this month. One thing is that Feadship never cease to amaze with their new concepts. Have a look at the video below and have a guess yourself, or you can wait until Megayacht Global brings you the full story in a couple of weeks from the Monaco Yacht Show.

"Speculation is everything"

Burger Boat Company Unveils "Liberty"

Burger Boat Company in the US have recently come up with this fantastic looking concept design named Liberty. Burger have teamed up with Gregory C. Marshall to design the 42m (138ft) Liberty which has wide open interior spaces along with large windows and super smooth exterior lines.

Her interior design consists of large main salon and dining area that can be easily transformed into an indoor/outdoor area by simply opening the port and starboard double sliding doors and the aft curved sliding door. The main entry foyer features double curved open staircases, one leading to the lower guest accommodations and the other to the upper deck. The guest accommodations consist of four staterooms, all with en suite bathrooms with the owner's full beam stateroom located forward on the main deck and includes a large lounge area, his and hers en suite bathrooms and generous closet space.

The upper deck includes a sky lounge which opens out to a private aft deck. Liberty is sure to bring Burger into the modern era of superyachts. 

De Basto Designs, 55m Quartz

Luiz de Basto of De Basto Design has came up with this quite amazing 55m (180ft) concept named Quartz. Luiz has designed Quartz to allow the owner to be in constant contact with the water and the natural surrounding area when she is at anchor. In order to do this he had to challenge the pre-existing ideas of megayacht exterior styling.

Luiz comments: "I was interested in exploring the relationship between the hull and superstructure and avoid the generic look we see in so many yachts today. However, to me yacht design is never a matter of style, it's a matter or architecture and technology working together seamless, achieving the type of results we can appreciate on a samurai sword or an iPhone. With this approach in mind there's no space for the cosmetic or superficial, everything has a function to fulfill, or even two, and its beauty comes from the correct use of technology".

The inspiration for the amazing suspended upper glass deck came form the exterior styling of modern day skyscrapers which have seamless floor to ceiling exterior windows. The upper deck (pavilion) is suspended in the air to allow the gap act as a wave breaker in those rough seas and also let natural light enter the deck below by a large sky light.

The side glass in the pavilion is on tracks so that the deck can be open to the outside surroundings or fully enclosed for extra protection on those windy days. The aft sides of the hull along with the garage door can be opened out to water level creating a unique beach club area with even more space than your typical beach club.  

Quartz will be able to provide the right owner with a yachting experience like no other and would be right at home anchored off a tropical island with a cool breeze.