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airmotion - travelling in the air
The field of air services and transportation has a very high growth rate. The main reason therefore is especially the increasing volume of leisure-time traffic.
It is true that there are several offers for the fast long-distance travelling, but there are almost no approaches, that concentrate on the aware experience
of flying itself. Our goal with this project was to develop a new and conscious way of travelling, in which the experience of nature from new perspectives
would be in the foreground.
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| background | one | The result of this Pre-Diploma project is the airship study airmotion. By combining infl uences from architecture and design with aerodynamic/-static and technical basics of the airship technology, this teamwork of two has been developed a new and innovative mobility solution for the air. Since it seems increasingly secondary where we travel, the HOW is becoming a more and more important part. In this fi eld of airborne transportation airmotion offers a new, conscious alternative. Through traveling instead of rushing, the route becomes the destination. |
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| vision | two | Based on the „lighter than air“-technology airmotion realizes a several days lasting trip in the air. Our concept follows the goal of enabling the travelers an aware and elemental perception of the nature and the fascination of fl ying and fl oating - while being „mobile mobile“. That means to guarantee the maximum of active freedom of movement for the passengers even during the whole journey. |
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| context | three | The goal of such a journey is an expedition to the wilderness, to untouched not developed and by that original places in nature, which are hardly accessible on the ground for the majority of travelers. For example the center of the Sahara desert, the ice deserts in the Arctic regions or the deepest of the Amazon rain forest. |
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| concept | four | This airship differentiates itself primarily from traditional airship concepts through a passenger oriented design. The feeling to be a part of the air is in the focus of interest. Transparency und thereby the discovery and experience of new perspectives and angles both from the ship and on the ship itself, plus a spacious interior are the essential criteria of difference in comparison to existing airships. By a surrounding, passable frame, the ship, its dimensions, the impression of the space and the modern technology themselves are worth a discovery trip. This frame as an outstanding appearance shows the alternative and innovative character of the design study; especially compared to the existing, modern airship concepts with their classic airship forms. Even though the characterizing frame form has a static and tight holding function, in combination with the buoyancy hull it represents tension and dynamic. Still the huge, light, transparent and bulging „air bubble“ stays the form defi ning element. |
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| data | technical | passengers 45 crew 20 dimensions 275 m x 71,5 m x 85,8 m construction frame-rigid (semi-rigid) weight (after mass estimation) 273 t volume of gas (helium) 280.000 m3 average speed 40 km/h full speed 150 km/h reach max. 5 days self-sufficient in the air impulsion fuel cell, electric motor,solar |
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| dimensions | 275 m x 71,5 m x 85,8 m |  |
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| sketches | final design |  |
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| system | gasmanagement |  |
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| control system | docking |  |
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| system | structure |  |
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| system | access |  |
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| final | renderings |  |
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| airmotion on [cardesignnews] [cardesign.ru] [hbk-bs] |
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