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My unfinished version II of the un-built Oceanic is one of two ships i imagine, the other is all made up in my head so i never even tried to reconstruct an image.
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1.) T.S.S. Pride of America- An American built two stacker.Features an art deco ballroom, rather than a dance club.She also boasts a grand Staircase with New Orleans French Quater design theme.The wonderful Empire State Dining room is where most passengers are seated.
2.) T.S.S. Conte Grande II- An Italian built masterpiece of design.Features an Andrea Doria ballroom.(I mean the explorer.)She has the wonderful Piazza di Venenzia with the theme of the Venitian buildings and artwork.Last, that I'm going to unveil in this post, the Ristorante di Capri, a five star Italian style resturaunt with the theme of Capri.
Both "ships" have a lot more amenities and public rooms, but my fingers are getting tired!!!
Eric Cruises Corp.http://globalcruises.why.to/
Of course my number-one mandate would be the look of the ship. There are so many ships out there today that are just plain ugly out side. The worst thing is sharp edges. Can't stand 'em. Even if a ship is square, it should at least have rounded edges everywhere (like Costa Classica for instace - a really lovely ship). I'd also probably leave out most of the balconies. I have the traditonal mentality that you put the cabins at the bottom of the ship, where it's stable, and the public rooms at the top, where you have a good view.
Views are important. Lots of windows. People on a cruise have chosen to travel by sea, thus they should want to see it! Too many ship designers seem to have the goal of making you forget you're on a ship... If you don't want to feel like you're on a ship, then don't take a cruise! This isn't the turn of the century, where people were afraid of the sea and so on and the object of ship design was to make them look like Edwardian luxury hotels. Those people would have chosen an alternative had it been available... Today's cruise passenger is there by choice, so exploit the sea. Make it visible as much as possible, with sweeping vistas.
Then there's the issue of ships which have beautiful cabins, and few public rooms. Textbook example would be Crown and Regal Princess. They have huge cabins, which is all good and well, but the public areas are few and far between and many are rather unattractive due to the ulitmate goal of huge cabins. I don't go on a cruise to sit in my cabin... And I reject the incerasing mentality that this is what people go on cruises for - to lock themselves in their cabins like recluses, taking meals on the balcony, etc. Suites are OK, but cabins shouldn't take over the ship!
And then of course there is the classic case of flow. There are times when I run across the design of a ship, and just from the deck plan you can see that passengers will not move well through the ship. Grand Princess is a good example - there are tons of places to sit and almost no space given over to giving you someplace to walk between different rooms and so forth. This leaves you stumbling through narrow winding passageways in lounges, interrupting entertainment, or bottlenecks ocurring right in the middle of alternative restaurants, with waiters trying to cross the throughfare with food trays. Ridiculous! It's like they designed all these rooms, and then just put them in the hull, forgetting to connect them, and so cut out doors at the last minute.
Enough rambling for now... Perhaps one day I will get someone to draw my ideas so you can all look at them .
my design: http://www.geocities.com/assedo68/project
Really good!Congratulations.
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