Studio Snoop · London
Amanda Talbot
Designer, strategist and author. Founder of Studio Snoop, a London design studio, and creator of Nervous System Design™: architecture that helps the body regulate and restore.
Amanda leads the Biological Brief, a design brief for a new or renovated family home built from how each person in the household sleeps, rests, moves and recovers.
The work
Nervous System Design™ is Studio Snoop's design framework. It starts from how the body senses and responds to light, sound, air, temperature, touch and company, and asks what a building has to do so people can restore every day.
The Biological Brief applies it to one household. Everyone answers privately, adults and children, in their own words. Studio Snoop reads the answers through the nervous system, hormones and the body clock, and hands the design team the conditions the house has to deliver, with the reasons for each.
Studio Snoop can create the brief for a family who already has an architect, stay with the architect through the design, or lead the design as a full service. See how it works.
Research
Amanda is a Master of Architecture candidate in Design Practice at the Royal College of Art (School of Architecture), supported by a President and Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship. Her research asks how the built environment supports nervous system regulation, including breathing.
Related: The Breath House, RCA2026.
The science behind the Brief, with sources, is set out on the Research and evidence page.
Background
Amanda also created Tilly, a heart-centred AI designer that works alongside the Studio Snoop team (2022).