Designed with the life and style of an eco-conscious rock star in mind, Escape is a super-sleek 110-metre Feadship with a submarine and myCopter craft, an awesome atrium with moonpool and panoramic elevator, and a veritable solar system of green innovations. There’s even room to grow your own vegitables.
Feadship CEO Jan-Bart Verkuyl and senior designer Ruud Bakker unveil how a bright bunch of brokers imagined the freedom to Escape from it all.
The design for Escape revolves around the life and style of an extrovert rock star with a keen eye for the planet.
Rocking the sky and sea
The deck hatch rotates towards the sun to catch the rays on its large PV cells, part of a solar panelling plan covering some 700 square metres and generating 133 kW of energy.
Escape’s slow sleek profile includes a submersible craft for exploring the underwater world and a foredeck hangar from which the owner’s personal aerial vehicle emerges.
Green footprint
Care for the environment is taken to the next level on Escape. This includes green innovations, such as an enthalpy wheel to pre-cool the AC intake with exhaust air, reheating of AC air with waste heat from the generators and hybrid propulsion, as predicated on the Feadship Future Concept Breathe.
These innovations offer fuel consumption savings of up to 35%, excellent manoeuvrability at full speed, silent electric cruising and a wealth of redundancy options. The owner will also use his sub to research the status of the oceans in which Escape cruises.
Heart of the matter
The epicentre of Escape is an amidships atrium that includes a wellness area and a moon pool with seawater which is actually inside the vessel and doubles as a secret submarine landing zone. There’s even a giant slide for inter-deck splashes and a panoramic elevator descending into the sea. The atrium is more than just a visual wow factor: it serves as a place for the owner and his friends to gather, replacing the function traditionally held by lounges.
Healthy ambience
The garden with a glass ceiling offers a personal space where the owners can truly enjoy the serenity of Escape.
Further forward is a greenery where fresh vegetables and herbs are grown in another aspect of the health-promoting ambience embedded in this design.
