Above: Project 404 Sarissa
DESIGN MOCKUPS: GETTING IT RIGHT
Various clients of Royal Huisman requested the shipyard to build them a full-size mockups...
DESIGN MOCKUPS: GETTING IT RIGHT
Various clients of Royal Huisman requested the shipyard to build them a full-size mockups...
…months ahead of the start of the actual production of their dream yacht. The scope can vary from a pedestal with steering wheel, to large areas such as a cabin layout or deck section.
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Royal Huisman’s full-scale design mock-ups support the design and decision-making process from vision to concept. At first glance a detailed creation in a substitute material might seem just-for-fun or perhaps even “excessive”, but in fact it is a very constructive and practical tool to review and experience the design during the superyacht creation process.
Virtual reality can be very realistic as well, but ergonomics, interactions and a “physical live” experience cannot be 100% imitated with a Virtual Reality (VR) headset or a digital 3D-model. Apart from the early stage enjoyment of stepping onboard the superyacht that the owners ordered just a short while ago, it is the optimum investment in “getting it right” for a yacht – an investment that will still deliver many decades from now. VR 3D may create an exciting “first impression”, but when it comes down to assessing those few modified centimeters here or there, “stepping on board” is by far the best way to feel, adjust and optimize the design and ergonomics.
Project 404 Sarissa and 405 Nilaya
To accommodate these very sizeable mock-ups of the aft half main deck of both sloops, specific halls on the shipyard premises were made available for this temporary purpose. There is no substitute for the actual experience of walking around in, touching, assessing and appreciating all aspects of an emerging construction.
Team meetings in the mock-ups, with literally all relevant parties on board and carefully looking at the same detail at the same time, helped to identify opportunities and resolve potential issues relating to the use of space. The shipyard’s craftsmen subsequently enhanced the temporary structure based on the concerted input from the owners and their design and build teams. One of the owners’ representatives adds: “Building the 1:1 scale mock-up has proven to be a fundamental part of the design process, enabling the owners and their team of architects, designers and builders to fine tune the deck layout down to the smallest details with the greatest confidence.”
Royal Huisman
design mockups:
The optimum investment
in “getting it right”
for a yacht –
an investment
that will still deliver
many decades from now
Above: Project 405 Nilaya
Above: Aquarius’ interior design mockup just a few months after the order to build this yacht. The engineering and production of the accommodation started after approval during the following owners’ meeting.
Above: additional design mockups as well as the end result. Aquarius: attention to detail, in every detail
“The goal is always
to ensure total
integration
of all potential wishes,
and avoid having
to make late-stage
(or even post-delivery)
changes”
Above: the optimum investment in “getting it right”. Project 378 Athena’s outside steering station, Project 384 Ethereal’s pilothouse, deckhouse and helmstation as well as her libary / music room, Project 400 Sea Eagle flybridge steering station, Project 386 Twizzle’s forward salon: the mockup can be converted into a dining too. The helmstation of Project 385 Hanuman,