The visual pleasantness in yacht design: natural lighting, views and interior colours.

The quality of the environment is related to the availability of natural lighting and views. In the field of yachting, the design solutions proposed make this relation critical. The demand of representation and sociality required needs the introduction of new systems of windows, new concepts of terraces and new layouts. These proposed solutions contribute to create a new relation between the interior of the boats and the exterior deck, attributing new meanings within the social idea of ‘going into the sea’. The small portholes aspire to become large openings for dialogue with the sky and sea. The unstable horizon of the boat, related to the dynamic changing nature of views and the changing natural lighting, generates very difficult conditions about the control of the factors that can help the designer to determine the good size of the domestic interiors and their relationship with the environment.