’80 feet sustainable motoryacht: Technological solutions concept of the living spaces on board.

The current development of new technologies in the nautical field has enabled the designers to transform and improve all the aspects related to ergonomics and comfort in internal yacht spaces, related to the different conditions of use of the product.The introduction and dissemination of new regulations governing the different ways of using the coast, combined with new production and storage technologies of “renewable” green energy sources, suggest us a new design approach no longer bound to traditional layout schemes, but based towards new layouts and new architectural languages. Yachts can be considered the testing ground for cutting-edge sustainable design solutions, aimed to improve the life quality on board, and to ensure the possibility of navigation in certainenvironmental contexts undergoing constraint[1].The use of newtechnologies, innovative materialsand advanced production processes, cangenerate newformal models, determine new spatial solutions, and enable the development ofnew conceptsthatallow the designers to respondto the demands of corporate representation,improvingthe relationshipof the productwiththereference context[2].Inthese first phases, the research, conducted at the Architectural Department of the University "G.d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), reports a series ofcritical reflectionsrelatedto theconscious designof the yacht living spaces, taking intoaccount of variousfactors, such as:theenvironmental context, natural lighting andvisual perception, on-board activities, management of the vessel, and hybrid propulsion systems.