Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran by Ruma Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Yacht and Marine Vessels Design Competition Category.
IronYacht· 2020
Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran
by Ruma Design
Client: RUMA Design
A' Design Award Winner in Yacht Category
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About Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran
Migma is a hydrogen-powered electric catamaran of 180 feet. The vessel runs without noise and without emissions. The name comes from the Greek word for mixture, and refers to the blend of technical rationality and natural fluidity. The exterior structure is inspired by animal shells and is made mainly of duralumin, with electrochromatic smart glass. A central stairway shaped like a spine links the lower deck, the salon and meeting level and the pilot house above. The interior is minimalist and offers panoramic views.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran 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. Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran 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. Migma Hydrogen Powered Catamaran is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
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.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
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.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
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.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Migma Project is a noiseless, zero emissions, Hydrogen powered, 180 feet electric Catamaran. Migma from the greek mixture, is an evocation to the life of the sea through structural bionic elements where the rationality of the technique is mixed with the fluidity of nature, as if it were a living entity.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions: (Overall Width) 26000mm x (Overall Depth) 56000mm x (Overall Height) 17200mm*
*(Waterline Height) 10500mm - Tags
- Bionic, Hydrogen, Organic, Structure, Elegant, Smart, Luxury, Sustainable, Technologic
- Production Technology
- Exterior: Structure mainly based on Duralumin, Polymeric non skid surfaces, Noble beech wood, Electrochromatic smart glass.
Interior: Krion Solid Surface, Marble, Technical floor, Alcantara fabric. - Design Challenge
- Migma Design Project is conceptualized to brake the rules of Yacht design, having a view to the past and current shapes we detected the need to lighten up its weight and thinking new ways of creating spaces. The main idea is to keep it alive, aimed by nature, protecting itself from the exterior and maintaining a warm essence inside.
- Research
- Migma is the perfect simbiosis between Nature and Technology. The exterior structure, inspired by animal shells, is connected with the interior spaces through the main stairway, shaped as a spine, which is located at the core and centre of gravity and extends from the bottom floor, where the galley, stateroom and heads are; across the mid floor, where the reception hall, salon and meeting room are placed; then finishing up above in the pilot house and sky lounge on the top floor.
- Inspiration
- Many creatures in nature, most famously crustaceans and clams, utilise hard shells and exoeskeletons in a myriad of ways to protect their bodies as they claim their place in the world. The Migma Catamaran project has been conceived to evoque a constant flow of growing lines and curves, rendering complex surfaces that embrace the rationality of flat surfaces. The boat itself acts as the link between both the rectilineal and fluid worlds.
- Project Duration
- Project developed at Ruma-Design SL in Madrid, Spain.
The Project started from November 2019 and finished in Febraury 2020. - Operation Flow
- Migma offers a minimalist feeling and luxury identity for high class society. The user experience has been conceptualized for business meetings where the central salon is the most relevant area in the core of the boat. Other use is for recreational purposes, offering two big luxury staterooms with ensuite heads and a broad front electrochromatic smart glass wall facing the ocean. Every space has been thought to have 360 degrees panoramic views, ending with a floating edge swiming pool.
- Patents
- Copyrights to RUMA-Design, 2020
- Team Members
- Ruben Velasco
Mario Fuentes
August Carbonell
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