Naval architecture · Design · 3D scanning & modelling
The design office and the workshop share the same building. What is drawn here is machined here, and fitted by the team that drew it.
A refit is decided through trade-offs: structure, weight, power, movement on board, resale value. Those trade-offs belong upstream, on a model — not mid-project, in front of a bulkhead already opened and a schedule already running.
Design is not the decorative layer of a project. It is what fixes its cost and its timeline. A project designed before it starts avoids three things:
A serious buyer — or their surveyor — does not stop at photographs. A 3D model reflecting the boat's actual condition, fabrication drawings for every element fitted, and an as-built file are worth a negotiating argument. Design work does not disappear inside the bulkheads: it transfers with the boat.
The difference
A design studio that does not build hands you an image. It hands it over, then it stops: someone else will have to make it, and a third party will explain why the result does not look like the render.
At Nexus the 3D file is not there to sell the project — it is there to build it. The approved model goes straight to machining, the part returns to the same building, and the team that designed it checks its installation. Between the drawing and the boat there is no handover file and no shifting of responsibility. There is one house.
Nexus Marine was founded in 2017 by Adrien Jousset, a naval architect who graduated from the University of Southampton, after working in the United States and the United Kingdom and then heading the design office of Sunreef Yachts in Poland.
What that changes for an owner: questions of structure, weight, stability and load paths are settled by someone whose profession it is — not approved after the fact by a subcontractor discovering the project. On a multihull, where every added kilo is paid for in performance and comfort, the difference shows.
Naval architecture degree from the University of Southampton — one of Europe's reference schools in the discipline.
Head of the design office at a large multihull builder, before founding Nexus.
We digitise the boat as it is — not as the builder's drawings describe it. This millimetre survey is the basis of any bespoke work: without it, every part is a gamble.
From the survey, your future layout is modelled in volume. You move through the redesigned interior before the project opens, and decide on images rather than intentions.
Fitted furniture, cockpit tables, worktops, technical storage, specific deck hardware and fittings. Designed for the boat's actual architecture, then machined and installed.
Hull livery, colour selection, signage, wrapping, lettering. The boat's visual world treated like the rest of the project: drawn, approved, executed.
Teak and its alternatives, composites, technical textiles, flooring, lighting. The advice covers what lasts in the Mediterranean as much as what photographs well — the two do not always overlap.
Complete design
The design office does not only work on existing boats. The Artemis 45 was designed here, from hull lines to interior layout: the same tools and the same team redraw the interior of a multihull in refit.
Tell us about your boat and what you want to do with it. We will tell you what upstream design can change about your project, and what it cannot.