Expedition ships HANSEATIC nature, HANSEATIC inspiration and HANSEATIC spirit

With the new ships HANSEATIC nature, HANSEATIC inspiration and HANSEATIC spirit, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is putting three expedition ships into service at 5-star level.

The project began in May 2019 with the HANSEATIC "nature", followed by the "inspiration" in autumn 2019 and finally the "spirit" in August 2021.

Together with the interior design office OCEAN ARCHITECTS, weiser.lighting developed a lighting design philosophy and implemented the lighting concept "inspired by nature" for the new expedition ships of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises until the final commissioning.



In nature, sunlight draws the contours of our living spaces and provides energy for life. Where natural light is not enough to define spaces, people create another dimension of experience and sensation with artificial light.



The aspiration of the new lighting concept of the HANSEATIC expedition ships is to use artificial, biodynamic light to adapt individual interior rooms to the respective lighting mood of the prevailing time of day, thus creating a dynamic lighting sequence that has a natural effect.



Light instead of luminaires: The focus is not on using as many similar luminaires as possible, but on the basic architectural idea of "inspired by nature". Light as an immaterial building material and as the fourth dimension of architecture. Qualitative rather than quantitative criteria apply. Thus, the usual practice of producing the basic lighting by means of a uniform grid of recessed ceiling luminaires with diffuse lighting characteristics is dispensed with. Instead, the lighting design incorporates the architecture of the ship. Light as the 4th dimension of architecture. The lighting of walls and ceilings makes rooms tangible and traces their dimensions. Accentuated light directed at architectural elements and furnishing objects creates special arcs of tension and creates an atmospheric ambience.



By means of an intuitive lighting control system, the guest cabins can adjust the lighting integrated in a "wave wall" developed exclusively with OCEAN ARCHITECTS to a cool light colour corresponding to natural daylight in the morning and to the atmospheric orange-red light of a sunset in the evening.

In keeping with an expedition ship, every taste is catered for in the culinary area with a total of three restaurants on board.
In the respective main restaurants of the three ships, the idea was implemented of sitting as if under a tree, through whose crown of leaves the light falls. For this purpose, a new type of luminous ceiling was developed, which is backlit by means of colour-dynamic light, as well as directing accentuated, directional light onto the tables. Lighting can be controlled in different scenarios - from the dynamic, fresh colour temperature of the morning to the atmospheric ambience of a candlelight dinner in the evening.

The highlight and lighting focal point of the HanseAtrium, the ship's central lounge, is a 15 x 4 metre LED luminous ceiling. The depiction of imaginary underwater worlds, clouds passing by in the sky or a starry night sky, together with the wave-like indirect lighting integrated into the rest of the ceiling, creates a special world of experience to accompany all events.

The exclusively indirect lighting of the pool deck, either close to the floor or integrated into the ceiling panels, discreetly stages this area for an undisturbed and unobstructed view of the fascinating world of the respective voyage surrounding the ship. Glass balconies on almost all cabins allow the guest to literally float above the ocean and, just like the generous open deck areas and the circulation at the bow, enable nature observation from the first row.

Arcs of light integrated into the walls and ceilings create an exciting and space-creating illumination of the corridors and show the guest the way to his or her cabin.

Every day, the new lighting concept makes a difference and intensifies a unique, atmospheric expedition experience. Exclusively on board the new expedition class of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises.

Meanwhile, the HANSEATIC nature was awarded five stars as the best boutique ship in the latest edition of the renowned "Berlitz Cruising & Cruise Ships 2020".

Source: Hapag-Lloyd Cruises

All new expedition ships have the highest ice class for cruise ships with the ice classification PC6.

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Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten GmbH

Ballindamm 25

20095 Hamburg

Germany