The ‘Benetti Design Innovation Project‘, a unique project presented by the prestigious Italian shipyard Benetti at the 2012 Monaco Yacht Show, represents the yard’s first collaboration with a well known Italian design firm, Luca Dini Design. One of the two new designs presented for this project is the 55m Luca Dini Superyacht concept described below, in addition to the 72m Luca Dini yacht with more details here.

55m Luca Dini Yacht Concept for Benetti Design Innovation Project

Luca Dini believes the opportunity has come at the right time: Benetti‘s history is 140 years long and as a designer it is not so easy to approach it if one doesn’t have a suitable experience baggage to rely upon. So, after a 20-year career and more or less 60 boats launched, Luca Dini had the chance to approach these projects with the maximum respect towards Benetti and to the great relevance this Shipyard earned in the yacht world; Dini knew he could bring in something new that could find its space in the Benetti tradition and at the same time to be projected to the future. He thinks he was on the same wavelength with them and their Innovation concept.

55m Luca Dini superyacht concept - view from above

55m Luca Dini luxury yacht concept - Bow

55m Luca Dini Yacht Concept - Aft View

55m Luca Dini Motor Yacht Concept

The studio’s main intention was to give glass a leading role. As a matter of fact the structure of the 55m Luca Dini yacht concept seems to wrap itself up, as if it was a decoration, around the glass which is the load-bearing element. Furthermore, since eco-sustainability and energy saving are more and more important issues these days, Luca Dini has foreseen a photovoltaic panels system to be installed in the wheelhouse ceiling (on the Upper Deck) that would supply a good share of the energy needed by the boat.

55m Luca Dini Superyacht Concept

Glass is in the foreground as well as on the transom, where a big window was designed, with the same shape of the portholes, to bring light to a gym. The powerful overall look of the 55m Luca Dini superyacht concept features no shortage of facets and sharp edges, and it is even more enhanced by the almost vertical prow. All of the above underlines the great amount of research devoted to every single detail of this design.

55m Luca Dini Yacht Project - Design Concept

55m Luca Dini Superyacht Project - Design Concept