Türkiye’de İnşa Edilen Yatların İç Mekan Tasarımı Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Abstract

Turkey, stands on the top of the list across the world about luxury yacht building over 24 meters in terms of overall length. Yacht sector, has economically high-income group of customers, produces high added value with subsectors that located in the country. But amount of these added-value can increase or decrease according to the design activities. Because design process can lead manufacturing activities from start to end. This situation become evident especially for custom builds yachts. In this respect, yachts’ manufactured in Turkey gains great importance in term of design. This study aims to determine the interior design origins (in terms of domestic or foreign) of the yachts over 24 meters which manufactured in Turkey and present qualitative and quantitative properties of these designs. This study, conducted in the form of listing of shipyard that build yacht, classification of their builts by means of length and identification of these builts’ design origin in terms of domestic or foreign. Total of 157 yacht projects (24 meters or over) lately built in Turkey has been investigated for this purpose. Average length of total projects found 41,14meters, 94 of 157 projects’ interiors belong to foreigners, 34 of 157 belong to domestic designers and about 29 of 157 could not be identified as a result of study. Domestic designs’ average length was 37,91 meters while foreigners’ was 43,55 meters. After all, could be said that success about yacht manufacturing couldn’t be attained for yacht interior design.