Superyachts: The agtech vessel of the future?

Editor's Note: The following information is derived from an interview between the Agritecture team and Björn Asmussen, Executive Architect & Director of the Ocean Department at 3DELUXE.

With farms transcending all defined boundaries of food cultivation, what's in store for the industry next?

Rendering sourced from 3DELUXE

…How about growing food on a yacht?

In the search for a "balance of hedonistic sustainability," award-winning design team 3DELUXE developed a concept to do precisely this. Unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show, the game-changing VY.01 concept is far better than your typical luxury yacht.

Complete with a greenhouse and vegetable garden, it's a "paradisiacal biotope," fit for passengers to grow their own food and collect fresh fish from the sea, shares Executive Architect & Director of the Ocean Department, Björn Asmussen.

Working in the high-luxury segment of yacht design, "there's a certain obligation to push boundaries. The project had to be a prime example of rethinking spaces with sustainable building technologies," shares Asmussen.

Farming is one part of this equation.

Asmussen highlights that controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is "a necessary component of a more sustainable life and future given how critical our global situation is getting."

Rendering sourced from 3DELUXE

Living in cities, "we have walls and buildings built to protect us from the environment, that oftentimes separate us from it. CEA can weaken that boundary and enrich our lives." Food is often brought in as a secondary component of projects. But, farming offers the potential to "create a community dialogue" by simply existing, "whether that be indoors or outdoors."

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Renderings sourced from 3DELUXE

Source: Agritecture