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Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran by Ruma Design |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
RD: The Migma Hydrogen-powered Catamaran acts as the link between the rectilineal and fluid worlds. Many creatures in nature, most famously crustaceans and clams, utilize hard shells and exoskeletons in a myriad of ways to protect their bodies as they claim their place in the world, which is a source of inspiration for the catamaran’s structure.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
RD: The project has been conceived to pursue a new disruptive way to create open spaces within a luxury vessel, in order to evoke a constant flow of growing lines and curves, rendering complex surfaces that embrace the rationality of flat surfaces.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
RD: Migma is a visionary project for visionary businessmen and women who want the experience of harnessing the waves from the command center of a spacious, luxury vessel.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
RD: From conceptualization to completion it took about 5 months.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
RD: It was an initiative at Ruma Design. Our team has many years of experience in the car design industry; we wanted to apply all our know-how in advanced design to the yacht industry
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
RD: It is not under production yet but we are seeking investors interested in the project for those purposes.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
RD: It was a natural interaction between our passion for design and our passion for sailing.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
RD: Migma is a project developed entirely by the Ruma design Team.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
RD: Migma Catamaran could be described as a niche product for a rather exclusive clientele. There’s no denying that this level of luxury, technology, and eye-candy targets a very specific market among which you can find yacht enthusiasts and visionary entrepreneurs.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
RD: The category of super-catamaran is an up and coming field where there’s still plenty of room for innovation and trendsetting, and with this project we wanted to add a very strong visual element. From the brutalist scope of its size to the sinuosity, elegance and fluidity to its bionic shapes.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
RD: We chose Migma, from the ancient Greek word μίγμα, which means mixture, as it encapsulates our desire to compound the rationality of technique with the fluidity of nature.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
RD: We use several tools, from hand sketching to Hi-quality 3D modeling and rendering software, we are a multidisciplinary team
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
RD: It is a bionic and zero emissions Super-Catamaran, that’s rather unique, don’t you think?
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
RD: We are a multi-skilled team specialized in advanced design, 3D shapes and volumes, technical solutions, and hydro-dynamics.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
RD: It is crucial, as its engine is powered by hydrogen cells, and uses flexible solar panels attached to the external shell.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
RD: We didn’t use analytical data but we conducted very deep levels of research before we came up with this design.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
RD: We encountered two great challenges. Firstly we needed to translate the abstract and sculptural shapes our creative team conceptualised, to the functional, hydrodynamic shapes typical of a catamaran, without losing the essence of the initial concept. The second challenge was to avoid that a vessel of such dimensions would come across as a cyclopean, unwieldy mass; that it would retain the levity, refinement, and fluidity of the original vision.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
RD: We really believe in this project and for that reason we wanted to showcase this concept to the wider design community and beyond. A’ design presented a great opportunity to do that.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
RD: In our line of work, we learn something new every day, with every project. Each challenge gives us the strength and motivation we need to extract the best of us.
FS: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
RD: Any good Project is the result of a great multidisciplinary team working together with eagerness for the same purpose and with a shared vision.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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