ShowBoats International — May 2017

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Zaha Hadid left as

much of a mark on the

water with one set of

superyacht designs as many do

with a career’s worth of sketches.

Four years after they were first

released, and on the anniversary

of the Iraq-born architect’s

death, her Unique Circle Yachts

for Blohm+Voss are still among

the most enthralling superyacht

concepts in existence. The family

of designs is based on a 420ft

“mothership” with a sculptural,

fluid form of interwoven meshes

• it does away with a traditional
  stacked deck structure in favor
  of an exoskeleton that connects
  the various levels. The German
  yard that built Motor Yacht A
  and Palladium was unfazed by
  the outré concept, and its naval
  architects technically specced
  five 295ft designs that could
  actually be built. This rendering,
  from the first of the 295ft designs,
  Jazz, shows how the organic
  superstructure benefits interior
  spaces with light and connection
  to the natural environment.
  “As a dynamic object that moves
  in dynamic environments, the
  design of a yacht must include
  additional parameters beyond
  those for architecture – which
  become much more extreme
  on water,” said Hadid.

Zaha

Hadid

IMAGE Zaha Hadid Architects

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