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Before Studio Spatial Poetry, there was seven years of practice within KPF London. Retail masterplans. Central London feasibility studies. Higher education campus regenerations. Mixed-use districts and adaptive reuse projects. Buildings shaped through transformation, renewal and new layers of purpose.
Within that movement, another question began to emerge. Not simply how architecture performs, but how space can hold light, atmosphere, memory, and human presence beyond the caption of the brief.
Studio Spatial Poetry grew from this shift in perspective. Not as a departure from the corporate environment, but as a recalibration toward a more attentive and human-centred approach — one that values detail, spatial experience, and the emotional resonance of place alongside strategy and delivery.
The practice moves between intention and sensitivity, balancing client intent with lived experience. Each project is seen as part of a wider continuum — layered, evolving, and shaped by the people who inhabit it. Space is understood not as fixed, but as something constantly formed through presence, memory, and time.
Yiwu Place Market Hall
Urban Regeneration
Through the design of the Yiwu Place Market Hall Interior, Krystal refined the project through multiple iterations toward its realised form. Conceived as a layered urban interior, the market hall is structured through materiality, movement, and spatial rhythm, creating an experience of discovery, gathering, and exchange within a wider masterplan framework.
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University of Birmingham Student Centre
Institutional Social Infrastructure
The University of Birmingham Student Centre was developed as an exercise in intensification within an existing structure, increasing capacity and refining functional clarity, with Krystal leading the design throughout. It forms a central node of student life, consolidating student life and campus services into a shared internal environment. The spatial strategy reorganises circulation around collective social spaces, creating zones for gathering, pause and informal exchange. Programmatic elements are distributed to support a more connected and accessible student environment across the building.
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Bermondsey Mixed Use Development
Adaptive Reuse and Residential System
Within the residential and public realm interiors of a major mixed-use development in the Bermondsey masterplan, Krystal contributed to shared amenity spaces, co-working areas, retail environments, and residential unit layouts.
The scheme sits within a wider neighbourhood strategy that re-establishes the site as a connected urban fabric, integrating housing, workspace, and community functions within a continuous ground plane. Shared retail, co-working, and amenity spaces operate as a social infrastructure layer, supporting movement, exchange, and everyday occupation.
Residential units are arranged across a range of typologies, developed through iterative coordination with clients and consultants to refine layouts and optimise efficiency within a diverse housing mix, with Krystal closely involved throughout.
The interior approach responds to the heritage of the former biscuit factory, retaining and reinterpreting elements of the existing structure as a spatial and material framework for intervention, embedding the project within a layered narrative of transformation between industrial history and contemporary residential life.
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London Covent Garden
Urban Planning
Across Covent Garden, Soho, and London Chinatown, Krystal worked with stakeholders on public realm studies focused on improving the quality, connectivity, and legibility of key urban spaces in central London.
The work explored how these distinct districts could operate as a more connected urban framework while preserving their individual heritage, fine-grain character, and spatial identity. Strategies were developed to enhance permeability across the urban fabric through clearer pedestrian routes, refined street hierarchies, and stronger links between key public spaces.
Responding to the layered condition of central London, the studies considered how calibrated shifts in spatial uniformity and distinction might reinforce place-specific identity while supporting overall coherence. Through analytical and design-led investigations, the work proposed frameworks for incremental urban improvement, strengthening inter-district connectivity and the everyday experience of the public realm.
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