Twenty-two specialists.
Two studios.
One patent. Four companies.
A practice that thinks like a software company and ships like an interior architecture studio.
We are 22 people, all based in London. Roughly half trained as interior architects and designers. The other half came from engineering, data science, machine learning research, and computational design.
Every project we deliver runs through both halves of the studio. The interior architects shape the brief. The engineers build the systems. The work that lands on a client's site has been through more analytical scrutiny than most consultancies apply to a five-year strategy.
And every project, in turn, teaches the engines underneath. We are not a studio that uses AI. We are a studio that builds it.
Steven Charlton
Steven founded i/o atelier in 2022 after a decade as Principal and Managing Director at Perkins&Will across the UK and Dubai. He is the founder of i/o atelier, i/o spark, nHabit and Halo, and the studio behind /n4, the spatial intelligence engine invented in-house by Jonathan Hill and Laith Mohajer.
He spends his time at the intersection of interior architecture and software, treating both as the same problem.
We hire for hybrids. Architects who code, physicists who design, engineers who draw, working across more than one company.
Many of the team move between companies week to week. The studio is the door to all of them. Meet the people →
One studio, in London. Workplace, hospitality, residential and masterplanning work across the UK, EU and KSA via long-standing Gulf relationships, with active commissions across PIF, Qiddiya and DIFC.