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Top 100: Building Green Giants Episode Two ‘Green Architecture’ Launches
The second episode of the documentary series 'Top 100: Building Green Giants' has now launched on Superyachts.com. In this brand-new episode, the focus turns to those at the forefront of designing the green superyachts of the future.
Watch the brand-new episode ‘Green Architecture’ here.
In conversation with leading designers, naval architects and global shipyards, we discuss the relationship between exterior design, architecture and sustainability.
Responsible for the start of a superyachts lifecycle, the milestone moments in eco-design are born straight from the drawing board, bringing future icons to the water. Blending science with aesthetics, as well as confronting the complexites that sustainability can bring, the role of designers is more elaborate than ever before.
With eco-conscious alternatives and green hydrogen fuel becoming more widely understood, creating vessels with the necessary adaptations is no easy feat, but is one certainly tackled head on by those crafting the future's vessels.
In ‘Green Architecture’ we discover the superyachts that are paving the way in eco-innovation, and the choices that an owner has to make in order to create a truly sustainable vessel.
Hearing from industry figureheads, viewers can discover the process behind how the size and shape of a vessel’s hull and bow, as well as considerations of gross tonnage, speed and even the use of alternative structural materials, form the superyachts of the future. The combination of naval architecture and engineering with aesthetic, functional design has cohesively delivered revolutionary superyachts that we see on the water today, such as S/Y BLACK PEARL, and M/Y WHITE RABBIT. This brand-new episode also shines a light on TOP 100 eco-concepts, and their futuristic qualities and design background.
‘When we see hydrogen fuel cells, for example, and different sources of propulsion, it can really change how we might design a yacht,’ discusses Simon Brealey, Principal Mechanical Engineer at Lateral Naval Architects, 'all sorts of design freedom can be created from engineering.’
Through an understanding of new and emerging eco-trends, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the role of the superyacht sector and its innovative design progressions will prove to influence beyond the industry.
"The vessel is designed for 30 - 40 years of operation, so we try and future proof them as much as we can to be greener, use greener products and be more sustainable for the future."
"The vessel is designed for 30 - 40 years of operation, so we try and future proof them as much as we can to be greener, use greener products and be more sustainable for the future."
Sean Bianchi, Head of New Construction, Naval Architect, Burgess