CAON
BEAUTY IN DESIGN
Innovative thinking can create new possibilities in aircraft interior designs,
adding comfort and beauty to the passenger experience
A
ir travel is an immersive
experience like few others.
A passenger’s entire reality
during flight is affected by and reflective
of the fact that one is travelling at
hundreds of miles per hour in a diminished
atmosphere, thousands of feet from earth.
Air travel becomes the lens through which
every aspect of the experience is viewed
and frames the forms that individual
elements occupy. It is its own,
incomparable playing field.
Cutlery, crockery, tiny toothbrushes,
toilets, blankets, pillows, bassinets,
soda cans, headphone jacks – so many
specific elements, removed from everyday
life and appropriated for air travel. The
effort and cost an airline goes to in
order to provide coffee that is somewhat
reminiscent of a passenger’s local cafe
is astonishing.
This is why Caon has such a passion
for the craft of aerospace. It can be a
boundless undertaking, with each project
representing an opportunity to deploy
design in broad strokes and fine detail
across different disciplines and mediums.
Air travel is, for the multidisciplinary
studio, an unparalleled opportunity
for discovery.
Design for aviation is, as most readers
of this journal will be keenly aware, a
negotiation. Concepts are a negotiation
between aesthetics, space, weight,
function and commercial realities. Once
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established, the execution of that concept
is similarly a negotiation of details and
features against budget and timeline.
Designers are as much the creators
of spaces as they are charged with
steering these ideas through the various
gates and milestones towards project
realisation. For a designer, success is
defined not only by the client’s satisfaction
but also, importantly, by the refinement
of those original and unique ideas and
bespoke touches, created with such care
to surpass expectations and enhance
the passenger experience.
2. THE REDESIGNED PREMIUM
ECONOMY SEATS ADD TO THE
LUXURY FEEL OF THE QANTAS
A380 UPPER DECK
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