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Bronze A' Design Award in Yacht and Marine Vessels Design Goes to Escalade Trimonoran Motor Yacht by Baran Akalin
Baran Akalin recognized for yacht and marine vessels design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Escalade Trimonoran Motor Yacht by Baran Akalin, designed for Baran Akalın, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Yacht and Marine Vessels Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Escalade Trimonoran Motor Yacht
Escalade is the new generation motor yacht that use trimonoran hull first time in the world. Trimonoran hull is more than 20 years research result and she provides, fuel savings, better stability and comfortable sailing, large deck and hull interior, less water resistance and speed gain up 30% than usual watercraft. Inspired from high technology and spunky animals, brings new perspective to her. Function systems are build for ease of use and kept as minimal with using touch screens on all levels.Her saloon provides galley, lounge, dinning and living areas in same place.
About Baran Akalin
Baran Akalın is an architect/designer born in Istanbul.He always has passion about cars, boats and water since from his childhood.Like almost any kind of vehicles has engine in it. He even started naming car types before start speaking around age 2 according to car's voices with his unknown language.In the process of growth, the idea of creating a living space outweighed. He studied architecture and started working right away one of the best studio in Istanbul. After 2 years of hard work, he decided upgrade his profession because he was dissatisfied with the construction industry.But did not want to give up creating living space.
Award Record
With this recognition, Baran Akalin is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Yacht and Marine Vessels Design Award
The A' Yacht Design Award is an international yacht design competition recognizing good yacht designs by leading yacht designers and manufacturers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to yacht designers, naval engineers, marine vessel producers and yacht manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include sailboats, motor yachts, catamarans, trimarans, superyachts and explorer yachts. The awarded yacht designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/yacht
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/104269
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104269
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104269
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/167778
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Escalade Trimonoran Motor Yacht
- Function
- Trimonoran Motor Yacht
- Category
- Yacht and Marine Vessels Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Automotive and Luxury
- Colors
- Black, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Baran Akalın
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Baran Akalin
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #104269
Credits
- Team
- Baran Akalın and Anwigema ( Gerard Jelle Bilkert )
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- World first motor yacht design using Trimonoran hull with every detail design especially for her. Trimonoran hull is more than 20 years research/invention from Netherlands. The hull provides , fuel savings,high stability and comfortable sailing, large deck and hull space, less water resistance and speed gain up 30%. Using more space than standart yachts with same length. Transom platform opens and goes down till water surface to present like beach club. Escalade has unique jacuzzi that has transparent ground and flybridge stairs goes underneath.
- Inspiration
- Except usual yachts, Escalade designed out of the box. She designed as a new technological vehicle moving on the water and cutting the waves trough. She has High technology and aggressive style mix with luxury design.
- Research
- Escalade is a new yacht type provides better options in every way. She is a twenty years research result. A proven hull by the Netherlands government and passed many water tests in the test pool. Her hull is approved max. 25 meters and 75 t on the tests results.Wider hull brings new type of layout and exterior design. She has a very large saloon that includes galley, dinner area and lounge area with two daily bathrooms. Functional systems are betterand comfortable than standart yachts.
- Challenge
- Hardest part was the general arrangement. I had to create completely new layout for unique hull shape. That is also brings unique exterior design.
- Realization and Technology
- There was mono hull , catamaran hull and trimaran hull in the market. Now there is a better hull mixed all the hull characteristic in one piece. Safer hull without losing comfort and space, economical and attractive, and serve all sorts of purposes and the benefits of the different hulls be combined into one design.Larger deck area, more stable and comfortable trips for people on board. She has also designed to have hydrofoils under the hull. She is cutting the waves like flying on the water and does not effected by minor waves. That brings very smooth sailing on the water.
- Operation and Interaction
- Escalade operated by two different touch screen consoles. Main one is on the main deck ( in saloon ) and second one is on flybridge ( upper deck ). Control pannels made of completely huge touch screens with light blue glow lights.
- Project Duration and Location
- Concept project started November 2019 and finished March 2020.
- Specifications
- Hull, Trimonoran Hull LOA, 25.000 mm Beam, 10.500 mm Height, 6.900 mm Draft, 2.500 mm Max. Speed, 50 knots Displacement, 65 t Drives, Hydraulic propulsion system
- Keywords
- Real game changer, Trimonoran Yacht, Futuristic, Stylish, High technology, Spunky
