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Three yacht designers talk about their crossover work on aircraft interiors.
by Mark T. Masciarotte
11/01/2004
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How
professional designers deal with
such
limitations is
in many ways applicable to
yacht
design. Carefully
engineered
general arrangements are a must,
and
full-scale
mock-ups,
such as the one used for the
Winch BBJ2 project, are of
inestimable
value.
Nevertheless, technical requirements aside,
designers say the
most difficult part of developing
any
aircraft interior concept is
dealing with
the
tube effect of
the fuselage.
Rick
Roseman of
RWR Designs specializes in
private
transport-category aircraft but also
has created yacht
interiors. He
explains that because an aircraft is a
tube, the
stylistic and architectural
challenge is to
make it
interesting. “That
means creating angles or curves;
anything
that can
break up the tube feel. Employing
ceiling panels that are flat
and as
wide as possible
while still giving
us the headroom we
need tends to take
away
from the
tube feel as well. We also like to use
window plugs and
features
that interrupt the window line at
certain
places, even within
a large VIP
salon,” Roseman
said.
 Rick Roseman took a much different approach to
this BBJ salon for a European
client. Note the use of strong
horizontal
lines. (Click image to
enlarge)
Winch agrees, noting that his
approach on the BBJ2 was
similar to that which he uses for yacht
projects.
“It’s
working out the same
things: sight lines and dimensions
down
to the millimeter. We wanted woodwork,
but we
could only carry so
much of it due to fire-loading, so we had
to place
it
where
its
appearance was rich
and structural to
evoke a sense of tradition.”
In
effect, Winch tricked
the eye to make it appear as
though
the plane had
wood
frames.
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