Nathan Lonsdale

Nathan Lonsdale is Partner and Director of Spacelab. He trained at the Manchester School of Architecture and Birmingham School of Architecture, UCE. In 1997 he was an Associate at Chiltern Cunningham Architects before leaving in 1999 to set up an Architecture and Project Management Department as part of a large Property Strategy Group. Nathan set up Spacelab with fellow director Andrew Budgen in 2002.

With 15 years of experience, Nathan has taken a lead role nationally and internationally on projects ranging from £50,000 to £20Million. He has extensive knowledge as a client, Design Coordinator and Project manager for Bauer, Emap, WPP and many more. Nathan is responsible for total Project Management control at Spacelab

Andrew Budgen

Andrew is a founding Partner and Director of Spacelab, and the creative brain behind the practice, overseeing design and innovation. Before setting up Spacelab, he worked on large projects for a number of mid-size practices, including Buschow Henley and Ian Simpson Architects.

He is a future thinker, seeing buildings, towns and cities as a stage for the elements that affect our lives, including culture, technology, and social networks. His ability to analyse and understand these elements, and create built forms that allow them to flourish, is a rare, award-winning and exciting talent.

At Spacelab, Andrew has made it his mission to help clients appreciate the impact – positive and negative – of their space. “People often don’t understand space, or look at it as an asset,’ he says. ‘But an understanding of how it works can really affect people, and their environments, for the better.” 

Ros Pomeroy

Ros is our research supremo, working with clients to determine how their space meets – and falls short of – their needs. With more than 20 years’ experience helping businesses manage change effectively, and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Studies from UCL’s renowned Bartlett School, she brings a unique understanding of architecture and business to the job.

Ros studied engineering, and ran her own change management and communications consultancy for five years. She then worked as Head of Organisation and Change Management at T-Mobile International, before completing her architectural studies, which specialised in an evidence-based approach to planning and designing spaces.

“The best thing about my job is being able to demonstrate the potential for making a space work much better, both for the people using it, and for the business as a whole,” she says. “And an MBA enables me to do this with an understanding of how any business needs to operate.”

Colin Macgadie

Colin is Spacelab’s design expert, having joined in 2005, after working as an interior designer for five years at Thinking Space Ltd. He works with clients from the initial research stage, right through to the choice of materials and finishing of details, ensuring that every aspect of the final design reflects what the organisation does, and what it needs – both now and in the future. He also has a proven record working on complex projects, having designed a number of large office sites within the Commerical Media Sector.

“The more time spent up front understanding the business, the better,” he says. “Ultimately, it results in future savings, because the solution has been designed to adapt with the client, so it will require less change over time. Also, a coherent design, based on research, can really expand and add value to an organisation’s vision of itself, and where it’s heading.”

Kerstin Sailer

Dr Kerstin Sailer is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at University College London and over a period of 4 years was responsible for developing and implementing Spacelab’s workplace research methodology. She now acts as our expert workplace consultant for specific clients and projects, specialising in complex buildings, organisational theory and behaviour, social network analysis and architectural research methods using Space Syntax theory. Kerstin is a trained architect from Germany, where she completed her Diploma in Architecture (University of Hannover), as well as her PhD thesis "The Space-Organisation Relationship" (Technical University of Dresden). She has won several awards and scholarships for her research and has been invited to present her work at a variety of national and international conferences and workshops.

Kara Wood

Since joining Spacelab in 2006, Kara has played a key role in the ongoing success of the business through her commitment to clients and projects from concept through to completion.

As lead designer, Kara has worked on a wide range of projects from initial spaceplanning & concept, to material specification & coordination on site, particularly in the design of workplace environments. Her knowledge of materials, furniture and finishes, along with an ability to keep ahead of the latest interior trends provides Spacelab with a clear creative edge. Her attention to detail delivers design continuity and ensures the final scheme is as exciting for her cleints as the initial concept. Kara was made Associate at Spacelab in 2011.