Zaha Hadid Creates Oneiric for Rossinavia

Zaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with Italian luxury yacht builder Rossinavi, have developed Oneiric, a new catamaran concept.

Design Features

The 44-meter aluminum-clad Oneiric Catamaran was created to demonstrate the company’s commitment to green technology.

With large areas of solar panels to feed the energy back, into the batteries placed under the vast roofs.

Yachting design has given ZHA the freedom to immerse themselves in the flexible and dynamic surfaces and shapes that characterize studio architecture.

In turn, she is enlightened by Zaha Hadid’s sculptural style of designing things on every scale.

At the same time, the yacht’s ability to harness renewable energy reduces the ship’s impact on the marine environment.

Full electric sailing is possible 100% of the time when stocked between islands,

for longer trips, and Rossinavi estimates you’ll only need the engine running 30% of the time.

This saves about 40 tons of carbon dioxide for a typical transatlantic transit.

These solar panels can’t do all the work, of course, and the boat’s batteries are designed to be charged when docked.

Alternatively, the boat can be used as a portable power source,

by connecting it to your remote island and it will provide enough power for heat and light.

Design shape

Inside, the oneiric seats ten passengers and seven crew members, with an owner’s cabin and four guest cabins.

As with all boats, Oneiric makes the most of its expanded deck area,

although twin hulls are shaped and positioned for the best combination of balance, stability and hydrodynamic efficiency.

Zaha Hadid Creates Oneiric for Rossinavia

Another key design element is the use of reflectivity, with gleaming curved walls,

roofs and windows that help move the yacht amid the reflections of the ever-changing waves.

This helps to “blur the boundaries” between the ship and the sea,

with walls and roofs that curve away from the horizontal to remove any visible barriers between the decks and the ocean.

There is also ample relaxation space on the floors and inside,

with an outdoor lounge and dining area linked to a full-width main saloon.

The owner’s suite also provides access to the large front deck,

while the open-plan approach distinguishes Oneiric from the traditional yacht design,

which features an array of cabins and smaller taxiways.

Luxury yachts are also not having the best time at the moment, with schadenfreude coming out in force as many major ships face penalties.

It takes a significant investment to bring a concept like Oneiric Catamaran to life,

and the industry is taking any proposal to aid and abet financial impropriety.

However, if you have to embark on a long journey of yacht ownership,

purity of intent and vision is an essential place to start.

This is not the first time that ZHA has been involved in naval architecture,

in 2013 the studio formed a series of six concepts for the German shipyard Blohm + Voss.

Times have changed, and the perfect, organic “Unique Circle Yachts” now feel too bold for comfort.

Instead, ZHA gave Oneiric a powerful but not flashy look that prevails in baroque excesses

(and also eschews the gleaming sheen of a thousand other ships before it),

Combined with Rossinavi’s electric drive system, Oneiric can run smoothly, silently,

and under the radar for many decades to come.

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