Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor by Jozeph Forakis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Yati na Vyombo vya Baharini Competition Category.
ShabaYati· 2021
Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor
Client: CL Yachts
Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Yati Category
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About Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor
CLX96 ni yacht ya motor iliyobuniwa kwa ajili ya kusafiri baharini na maisha ya nje. Chombo hiki kina urefu wa jumla wa mita 29.5, upana wa mita 7.32, na kina cha mita 1.62. Muundo wa juu wenye pembe mbili za kinyume, ulioimarishwa na vipengele vya pembe tatu vilivyowekwa kwa mfumo wa triangulation, huongeza uimara na kuunda nafasi za ziada za ndani na nje, ikiwa ni pamoja na sitaha ya jua mbele ya chumba cha kuendeshea (pilot house). Madirisha ya pembeni na ya nyuma yanayofanya kazi kwa umeme huruhusu chumba cha kuendeshea kubadilika kutoka hali ya wazi kabisa hadi hali inayostahimili hali ya hewa. Vipengele vya mbao, jiwe, na Corian vinatumia mfumo wa ujenzi wa honeycomb na msingi wa foam ili kupunguza uzito.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award
Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. Clx96 Chombo cha Kifahari cha Motor hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The CLX96’s iconic profile and numerous innovative features result from original thinking and smart design, integrating beauty and functionality. The unique double-reverse-angled House allows more exterior and interior space than any vessel in her class, including the first-ever sun deck forward of the Pilot House. With electrical up-down windows, the Pilot House converts from fully open to weather proof.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Length overall- 29.5 m
Beam- 7.32 m
Draft- 1.62 m
Displacement- 92,990 kg (approx.)
Top speed 27.0 kts (approx.) - Tags
- iconic design
- Production Technology
- With a long history using state or the art composites, the shipyard has a well earned reputation for building strong, lightweight, high performing, seaworthy craft. The unique design of CLX96 represented new challenges that required new building techniques and solutions which will be leveraged into future designs. All wood, stone, and Corian elements are made with honeycomb and foam-cored construction, combining performance, stiffness and lightweight efficiency with unprecedented luxury experiences.
- Design Challenge
- This is an honest design. A sincere way of approaching problems in new ways and developing a new language based on an original vision. The bold profile and iconic design is the result of a holistic, First Principles re-thinking of yacht design. From the double-reverse angle House - more interior volume and exterior spaces with increased overall strength and rigidity - to the Plumb Bow semi-planing hull - enhanced volume with exceptional performance and seaworthiness - the unique overall design results from an integrated way of synthesizing problem solving into a new, original, unified whole. Everything on this boat - inside and out - has multiple functions, rather than trying to be different for its own sake, and is connected to a higher vision and way of thinking
- Research
- The client challenged us to rethink yacht design and yachting experiences from the ground up. Growing up with a love for boats and the sea, but having never designed a yacht before, I approached the project with the eyes of a child and an outsider’s imagination.
However, beyond pure intuition and vision, our design process follows a model of Cross-Fertilization combining creative ideation and critical and analytical research. Our extensive research into any new targeted area includes benchmarking historical, technical, and socio-cultural milestones and trends to understand direct and indirect influences, allowing us to quickly identify - as well as invent - innovation opportunities with a fresh, original, but - importantly - expert perspective.
Additionally, our studio’s ongoing research into new materials and manufacturing techniques, and well as extensive knowledge into state-of-the-art interactive digital technologies, informs our thinking and vision in ways that inform and excite us to create new ideas and approaches.
For CLX96, collectively thousands of hours were spent touring, sailing, and living on boats, visiting yacht shows and shipyards, interviewing yacht owners, their captains and crews. - Inspiration
- The design optimistically embraces this yacht's role as a vehicle meant to honor the great outdoors, celebrate the sun and sea, while protecting her occupants from the elements and surprises of the deep at all times.
- Project Duration
- Project duration- 2018-2020
Location- Hong Kong - Operation Flow
- The main idea was to blend the outdoors and indoors throughout the boat, and to create - not just more space - but more more diverse types of spaces for people to enjoy themselves and each other in different ways: collectively, in small groups, and in solitude as desired.
The iconic double-reverse-angled superstructure, reminiscent of commercial ships and explorers, presents an innovative structural architecture which is inherently stiffer due to the triangulated, flying buttress elements anchoring all four corners. This same arrangement allows more interior space in the House, and more exterior space on the Flybridge.
CL Yachts has great expertise in composite construction to achieve rigid but lightweight structures. With CLX96 new techniques were developed to achieve unprecedented visibility emphasising thin but strong columns, large windows, and transformable, multifunctional spaces. From every point within Main Deck guests can see virtually uninterrupted 360° views; side-side, and fore-aft. This is possible due to the open, loft-like plan as well as the unusually narrow columns achieved.
The flybridge Pilot House is designed for safe, secure, comfortable operation in all weather conditions. The innovative side and aft windows are electrically operated to transform this luxurious Skylounge from fully open to weather-tight. This all-weather arrangement permits the use of a single helm, freeing the Main Deck for even more space to be enjoyed by guests.
At the boat’s stern on the expansive Transom deck a large, transformable Z-lift platform allows for safe and easy deployment of tenders, jet skis, and other water toys. Lowered partially into the water, the same platform creates a stable, beach-like arrangement with integrated stairs; increasing the fun close to the water for bathers and sun lovers.
At the bow, an expansive sun lounge with adjustable beds transforms to an innovative cocktail lounge in-the-round; transforming collective moments and memories.
On the Lower Deck Staterooms, the flow of nature follows you throughout these volumes seamlessly sculpted from daylight, gently curved wood, and a combination of natural and high-tech materials. - Patents
- "CL Yachts" and "CLX96" names and logos are trademarks of Cheoy Lee Shipyards Ltd.
- Team Members
- Jozeph Forakis
Deok San Lee
Nikolai Rizo
Raffaelino Farina
Claudia Renate Mantik
Prima Ramanuj
Martina Biondi
Martin Lo
Earl Alfaro
Albert Horsmon - Image Credits
- Jozeph Forakis (jozeph forakis ... design)
CL Yachts
Ken Wu
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