New visions for future cruise ship vessels

Modern cruise ships are designed to magnifying their hospitality on-board, independently from the route followed. The present knowledge of electronic, demotic and mechatronic, applied to the naval constructive art, will open future scenarios and innovative solutions that will introduce flexible designs in the incoming cruise ship’s interiors. Future cruise vessels will be much more in harmony with surroundings and the environment, then today: for ships moored to the pier, they will be more in harmony with the cities, while, when on anchor in the bay, they will improve their relations with the sea, with marine activities and with the surrounding shore. Following this spirit of research, in the context of the Design Studio 3 in the last year of the Master training program of Naval and Nautical Design (UniGE-PoliMI) at the La Spezia campus, we study the themes that we believe will soon characterize the cruise ship in the near future. In this sense, the introduction and the proposition of different and innovative solutions that contemplate mechatronics applications as well as the reference to the element of the ship itself, proportions and balances between closures and openings, public and private spaces occur. In this design experience groups was formed by students belonging to the Master’s degree programs of both design and engineering tracks. This combination of different cultures allows the synthesis defining of the designs as a good interactive compromise between different approaches methodologies.