2025 | Student

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Multifunctional Aquaculture Yacht Concept Design

Entrant Company

Hubei Institute of Fine Arts

Category

Conceptual Design - Travel / Recreation

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

This design introduces a novel "Multifunctional Integrated Smart Offshore Aquaculture Platform," merging three core functions: marine aquaculture, green energy, and eco-tourism. It overcomes the limitations of traditional marine ranches in terms of wave resistance, environmental carrying capacity, and industrial singularity, creating a future-oriented aquaculture yacht that is both mobile and self-sufficient.
The design centers on sustainable development and industrial integration. Through comprehensive innovation in hull structure, energy systems, and spatial layout, it achieves a triple balance of production, ecology, and living, promoting efficient utilization of marine resources and long-term development of a green economy.
Streamlined Hull with Diversion Grooves: Reduces drag, enhances maneuverability and control, enabling "nomadic" mobile aquaculture.
Parametric Skeleton Design: Optimizes material distribution, strengthens structural integrity and wave resistance, ensuring stable operation in harsh sea conditions.
Central Rotary Smart Cages: Utilizes ocean currents for automatic rotation, promoting water exchange and fish health, while also dispersing impact energy.
Adaptive Solar Wing System: Deploys like wings to capture green energy, ensuring the platform's energy independence and clean operation.
The platform's interior features aquaculture zones, fishing areas, cultural tourism and education zones, scenic leisure areas, and accommodation zones. Through underwater sightseeing, marine science popularization, leisure dining, and other experiences, it creates a complete industry chain "from aquaculture to table, from production to tourism," achieving deep integration of primary and tertiary industries, generating higher economic added value and development resilience.
Environmental Sustainability: Mobile aquaculture reduces regional environmental pressure, and clean energy lowers carbon emissions.
Safety and Reliability: Advanced hull and skeleton design ensure stability and safety in extreme sea conditions.
Economic Resilience: Industrial integration breaks through traditional single aquaculture models, improving profitability and risk resistance.

Credits

Yang Yi
Xiang Jin
Yu Hancheng
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