Mercer

Design for a minimal staircase with a single offset stringer, CNC plasma-cut steel tread and platform supports for a residential installation in Manhattan. Mid-landing platform is engineered to be supported by the converging stair stringers and tension rods attached to the building structure.
Conceived by Jerry Nance with Serett Metalworks.

Bangkok Hotel

A proposal for a modular 65-room hotel and a restaurant for a site in Bangkok Thailand. Guests can be as connected to the city environment as they wish with passively cooled spaces that encompass interior personal and exterior social realms. This environmentally oriented building creates easy connections to the street, neighboring Khlong and the Chao Phraya River with views towards downtown Bangkok.
Jerry Nance

25th

Blackened steel railing with dyed saddle leather handrail designed and built with Serett Metalworks for a residential loft in Manhattan. This design was conceived to have a minimal profile and to project a weightless feeling with floating corners and clean transitions.
Jerry Nance

Crow's Nest

Observation deck incorporated above a playground office and public bathroom installed at David Rockwell's Imagination Playground at the South Street Seaport in New York City. Jerry Nance and Michael O'Toole completed the comprehensive construction documentation and fabrication drawings for this structure of tubular steel and seamless TIG welded stainless steel. This structure was constructed in Brooklyn, NY and transported across the East River to Manhattan for installation and finishing. Work performed for Serett Metalworks.

West End Helix

Full helix staircase in black patina with leather handrail and Corian treads designed and built with Serett Metalworks for a boutique retail store in Manhattan.
Jerry Nance

Crowley

Clear-coated raw steel staircase with oak slab steps and screens constructed of three 8x10' steel sheets CNC plasma-cut with a hexagonal pattern.
Ryan Kent

Formation Studies

Parametric modeling research aimed for implementation via CNC machining and CNC profile cutting. Both practical and abstract projects generated with various parametric modeling software. Examples include a woven mesh surface, a triangulated structural tower, and a helical staircase.
Jerry Nance

Microscope

As part of an initiative by Diascopic LLC to provide rapid pathology for detection of diseases such as tuberculosis, the iON was designed and fabricated by Dash 7. It offers a completely digital automated platform for analysis and data collection in a portable device. It has taken the benefits we now find in our cell phones, etc. and applied it to the world of microscopy in order to deliver accurate and immediate responses in the difficult environment of developing countries.

Waterfall Swing

Towering steel swing set holding an array of mechanical solenoids that creates a water plane falling in the path of its riders. Formed from a tangent of ideas raised from the study of interactions of water as space, the swing is the first in a series that play with interaction in rides and installations. Riders pass through openings in a waterfall created by precisely monitoring their path via axel-housed encoders, creating the thrill of narrowly escaping obstacles. Andrew Ratcliff, Michael O'Toole, Andrew Witte, Ian Charnas

Swimming Cities | India Project

Handmade stainless steel boats with power-trains adapting motorcycles to paddlewheels and props. A continuation of Swimming Cities projects, the coming journey in Fall 2011 will take these boats with a group of Brooklyn, NY based artists to the Ganges River in India for a two month, 200 mile journey from Haridwar to Varanasi where they will perform and engage with the life on this holy river. See weareswimmingcities.org to follow this journey.

Skatepark

Sign and fencing in iron and stainless steel. Designed and built for the Volcom Brothers Skatepark in Mammoth Lakes, CA in memory of Jeff Anderson whose art work is CNC plasma cut throughout the park.
Ryan Kent

Workstation

Workstation proposal consisting of three base pieces that allow configurations for various uses forming seating, storage, lighting with surfaces for computing, drafting and model making. Constructed with High Density Polyethylene for superior wear characteristics, recycleablity, translucency and durability.
Jerry Nance

X Table

Precision table base fabricated from stainless steel bar. Fully TIG welded and brushed to a #4 finish.
Jerry Nance

Sliding Credenza

Stainless steel credenza designed around two remaining treads from a semi helical staircase. The two identical pieces are inverted and attached with drawer slides to allow horizontal opening and closing. All pieces are fully TIG welded and remain in their natural finish.
Jerry Nance

Sprout, Applepicking

Stainless steel sofa and chair with decorative side panels inspired by a journey to an apple orchard.
Ryan Kent

White Maple Credenza

Credenza with two white maple slabs closing off a black patina wax finish steel frame with hand-spun brass legs finished with a rubbed bronze patina.
Ryan Kent

Boken Ipe

Outdoor table with ipe wood top and powder coated steel frame designed to weather winter and enjoy summer.
Ryan Kent