Gondola
Gondola Electric Hydrofoil by Wang Yuchen and Wang Xuanzheng is a winner of the 2025 Iron A' Design Award in Yacht and Marine Vessels Design.
Gondola is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The Gondola Hydrofoil utilizes a minimalist design concept. It combines the elegance of a gondola with the dynamism of a hydrofoil, blending traditional culture with modern aesthetics to create a new water tourism experience for Venice, as well as other coastal areas, based on Venetian culture. It is capable of switching between high-speed movement and leisurely cruising, ensuring that it meets the needs of users in different situations and enhances the traveling experience. The research project not only designed the hydrofoil, but also explored a new research path for tourism experiences.
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Gondola by Wang Yuchen and Wang Xuanzheng
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Electric Hydrofoil
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Yacht and Marine Vessels Design Award Winner in 2025.
Iron Winner
Gondola Electric Hydrofoil
Gondola is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Gondola is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Gondola is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Wang Yuchen and Wang Xuanzheng
Wang Yuchen is a researcher and practitioner in the field of transportation design, mainly focusing on transportation and industrial design. He has participated in multiple design projects and international exhibitions. Based on the platform of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, he has made practical and theoretical contributions in the fields of ship design, intelligent car cockpit design, and intelligent product design from a unique perspective. In the future, he will continue to promote the combination of research and practice, interdisciplinary creative methods, and contribute his own strength to the field of industrial design.
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Central Academy of Fine Arts-Mobility Innovation (Transportation) Design
The research direction of Mobility Innovation (Transportation) Design of Central Academy of Fine Arts is based on the new technological and social background interwoven by the development of new energy, sharing economy, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technology, and the teaching and research practice in response to the future mobile scenarios and the ongoing changes in the attributes of vehicles. The teaching goal is to cultivate young intellectual groups with logical analysis and research ability, active innovation ability, keen technical sensitivity and social concern, and grow into future industry standard setters through sustainable design practice. The Department was founded in 2006 in the name of Vehicle Design and renamed as the Transportation Design in 2008. In the initial stage of the department, we focused on the research of product trend, modeling and forwardlooking product system design to connect the automobile industry. In recent years, we turned to the research of "new species" and "scene flow" to be defined with smart mobility as the core and smart city as the platform, Therefore, the department was officially renamed as the Mobility Innovation Design in 2018.
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