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Bruice R. Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce R. Johnson(Sparkman & Stephens) The firm of Sparkman & Stephens (S&S) was established in 1929 to engage in the practice of naval architecture and conduct the business of yacht brokerage and marine insurance. The company is comprised of two departments; one engaged in the design and engineering of yachts, military and commercial craft, the other with the brokerage, chartering and insurance of yachts. Olin Stephens and Drake Sparkman founded S&S with current management taking over their stewardship in 1980. Managing the Design department are Chief Naval Architect and Executive Vice President Gregory M. Matzat and Chief Designer Bruce R. Johnson. Major works include Dorade, Stormy Weather and J-Boat Ranger. S&S has been actively involved with the design/engineering of today's large power and sailing yachts. Recent examples of our larger projects include S&S's launches of the 195-foot motor yacht La Baronessa built by Palmer Johnson and the 93-foot sailing yacht Marguerite built by Vitters Shipyard. La Baronessa was distinguished with ShowBoats award for Most Innovative Motor Yacht for 1998. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Environment is consciousness of the In conceptualizing the design of the birdhouse, relative to the field of naval architecture and yacht design, we felt that the birdhouse had to symbolize this interesting and diverse profession of ours in the purest form or symbolization. We soon came to realize that there were unlimited possibilities for our concept. We therefore had to focus on the task at hand. It was necessary for us to take our concepts to the very basis of naval design, the very essence of what we do. This involves of course different elements or disciplines: hydrostatic principles, geometric relation-ships and stylistic prose. Our task was to decide how best to express the epoch of our development as a profession. How best to create from all possibilities the heart of the matter? We unraveled the layers of technical and aesthetic reality, back to the basis of all naval architecture, without which we could not exist, the discovery of the principle of buoyancy, by Archimedes(287-212 BC). This is the first principle of naval architecture. This principle states that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. The universal symbol of the volume of displacement is the tetrahedral, or pyramidal shape. The principle, which, for naval architects and yacht designers, certainly can be referred to as the "first principle", solves the question of how a body can remain floating in water, despite it's weight, as long as the underwater volume of the object can displace it's weight in water. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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