A practice and a laboratory — designing buildings and the instruments that produce them.
WUA Studio is a London-based architecture practice and research laboratory. We were founded in 2021 to ask, in practice, what an architecture firm should be in the age of intelligence.
WUA Studio, Design District, North Greenwich, London.
The studio at Design District, North Greenwich.
Buildings that respond. Across scales, typologies, and continents.
From masterplanning through architecture, hospitality, residential, and cultural design — concept to delivery.
Tools we build, not just buy. Through WUA_LAB.
SLAM scanning, 3D Gaussian Splatting, AI workflows, and the Lintel platform for spatial intelligence.
Geography, culture, and commerce. We hold all three at once.
Context is the working material of design, not its background. Seven languages, deep regional fluency.
From desert hotels to urban regeneration, from public art to brand spaces — the range itself is the argument.
Dunhuang, China — Under construction — 2026
A boutique wellness retreat drawing on local typologies and craft, at the threshold of the ancient Silk Road.
Romania — International competition shortlist — 2025
Reimagining a Black Sea waterfront as a flood-adaptive civic district — landscape, public space, and commerce in one strategy.
UAE — Prototype design — 2025
A reinterpretation of Emirati domestic typologies — wind tower, screen, courtyard — with passive performance and modular living.
Foshan, China — Completed — 2024
A site-specific installation exploring water, vessel, and Cantonese delta culture through contemporary spatial language.
London, UK — with Potlatch
A brand installation merging spatial design and storytelling — proof that an architect's eye works at brand scale too.
London, UK — with Potlatch
A fast-paced, high-exposure retail environment for a technology brand — connecting product, space, and audience.
Beyond the building, we develop the instruments — spatial intelligence pipelines, AI workflows, and our own Lintel platform. WUA_Lab is the research and development practice of WUA Studio.
WUA_Lab — the research and development practice of WUA Studio. We build SLAM scanning, 3DGS reconstruction, AI workflows, and the Lintel platform — currently piloting at Knight Dragon's Design District, North Greenwich.
WUA_LAB is the research and development practice of WUA Studio. We build SLAM scanning, 3DGS reconstruction, AI workflows, and the Lintel platform — currently piloting at Knight Dragon's Design District, North Greenwich.
In partnership with the University of Greenwich Knowledge Exchange Centre (MOU) to develop commercial applications of digital spatial intelligence. Cross-industry collaborations span furniture algorithms, digital archives for galleries and art festivals, and virtual touring.
Four service lines that translate spatial intelligence into deliverable work — for our clients and for the wider industry.
Before founding WUA, founder Shaobo Wu contributed as a project director & senior architect to landmark projects, during prior tenure at the offices below.
Red Sea Project
Saudi Arabia · prior tenure
Racing Car Museum
prior tenure
Dubai Expo 2020 Masterplan
prior tenure
Senior team experience spans KSA, Kuwait, UAE, UK, China, and Europe.
Shawn helped establish Sordo Madaleno's London team and led the office's early-phase major Red Sea projects in Saudi Arabia, after years at Foster + Partners and HOK on large-scale cultural and entertainment projects.
Educated at Newcastle, Greenwich, and The Bartlett (UCL). Mentor at the University of Greenwich.
WUA Studio, 105 B4, Design District
3 Barton Yard, London SE10 0BN, UK
Room 1701, Yintong Building
988 Dingxi Road, Changning, Shanghai
