Modular Ship Cabin Layouts with Corridor Supports for Cantilevered Balconies
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cruise ship cabins face challenges in efficiently utilizing limited deck space while providing comfortable living spaces with integrated balcony or veranda access, often constrained by structural components that reduce door or window size.
Innovation Solution
A modular cabin system with support beams and columns strategically positioned within corridors and recesses of adjacent cabins, allowing for cantilevered extensions and integrated balconies, and vestibule configurations for enhanced space utilization and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If support beams and columns are positioned within corridors and recesses of adjacent cabins, then space utilization is optimized and integrated balconies can be provided, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cabin structure is divided into modular sections with support beams and columns positioned at specific intervals within corridors and recesses. This segmentation allows the structure to be built using standardized modular components while maintaining structural integrity and optimizing space utilization for balconies and verandas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes the third dimension by positioning support structures within the depth of corridors and recesses rather than along the exterior perimeter. This allows balconies and verandas to extend outward without requiring additional lateral support space, effectively using vertical and depth dimensions to resolve the space-utilization versus structural-complexity contradiction.
2Ease of operation
If cantilevered extensions are used for balconies, then integrated balcony access is provided, but structural support requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Support beams are positioned in advance within corridors and recesses during the structural design phase, creating pre-positioned anchor points that enable cantilevered balcony extensions. This preliminary placement of support structures eliminates the need for additional external support columns, simplifying balcony access while maintaining structural strength.
3Reliability
If vestibule configurations are implemented, then fire safety is enhanced, but cabin space is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The vestibule structure is extracted from the main cabin interior space and positioned within the corridor area, utilizing the space between the cabin wall and the external environment. This extraction allows the fire safety vestibule to function as a separate buffer zone without significantly reducing the usable interior cabin space, as it primarily occupies the transitional corridor volume.
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AI summary
A modular cabin system for a ship includes a plurality of first modular ship cabins disposed within a first plurality of spaces within a deck of a ship, each first modular ship cabin including a plurality of modules. The deck includes a row of support beams and a row of support columns, the row of support beams parallel to the row of support columns. The system also includes a plurality of second modular ship cabins disposed within a second plurality of spaces within the deck of the ship. At least some of the support beams or the support columns are disposed within a corridor between cabins of the plurality of second modular ship cabins, and at least some of the support beams or the support columns are disposed within spaces surrounded by adjacent cabins of the plurality of first modular ship cabins. Each space can be at least partially defined by walls of a first module and a second module of one of the adjacent cabins.