Cox’s Bazar Surf Hub
Pre-design and schematic feasibility for a four-storey surf hub and boutique hotel on a flood-prone coast, organised around a dry plinth, wet-tolerant ground plane and shaded ocean frontage.
View projectConcept designHospitalityHousingResilient environments
Land, climate and ways of living shape the work.
Synthia Jahan Studio develops concept and spatial direction for destination hospitality, distinctive homes, retreats and complex site-based projects. Work begins at feasibility and continues through spatial, material and visual direction, in collaboration with local technical teams as projects advance.
Canada-based · Working internationally
01 / Selected work
Selected work.
BuildingBloc
Concepts for deployable medical microfactories, remote manufacturing and modular campuses, translating technical programmes into legible environments and credible investor-facing proposals.
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Vancouver Laneway Homes
Selected built laneway homes led through design development, permit coordination and delivery while at Smallworks.
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Veils
Research into compact ecological dwelling, private outdoor rooms and settlement patterns that balance autonomy with shared land and collective life.
View research02 / Engagement
From site and ambition to a coherent project.
Feasibility + concept
Site, climate, programme, constraints and development potential translated into one clear proposition.
Spatial + material direction
Massing, circulation, landscape relationships, atmosphere and material logic developed as a coherent whole.
Project narrative
Drawings, diagrams, imagery and language that align clients, investors, collaborators and local technical teams.
Development framework
A clear basis for registered professionals, planners, engineers and specialist consultants to test and advance.
03 / Project territories
Where the studio works.
Commercial commissions
Hospitality + retreat
Boutique hotels, surf and wellness projects, lodges, cultural destinations and landscape-based retreats.
View hospitality work Built work + new commissionsHomes + land
Distinctive homes, cabins, additions and small developments shaped by site, climate and everyday rituals.
Explore homes + land Complex and climate-exposed sitesResilient environments
Coastal, modular and deployable projects shaped by environmental exposure, logistics and operational demands.
View resilient work Independent researchFuture forms of living
Compact dwelling, ecological settlement, shared landscapes and life alongside intelligent systems.
Explore research04 / Method
Making complexity inhabitable.
A project becomes coherent when the condition governing the whole is made visible. It may be land, climate, movement, programme, risk or daily use. The studio turns that condition into a structure for form, space, material, landscape and later technical development.
Ground
Begin with the physical, cultural and operational conditions.
Structure
Find the organising idea capable of guiding the entire project.
Inhabitation
Test it through movement, privacy, light, access, maintenance and daily life.
05 / Systems + emerging technologies
Spatial thinking beyond buildings.
Product ownership · AI coordination
Utsa / OfferNet
An AI coordination agent designed to match needs and offers, preserve context across time and support collective action.
View case study Identity · Design system · AGI ecosystemBGI Brand System
A visual and communication system extending from colour and typography to events, interfaces and made-to-order goods.
View case study06 / Regional work
Homes and small development across British Columbia and Alberta.
The studio undertakes selective homes, cabins, retreats, renovations and small developments across British Columbia and Alberta. Built residential experience in Vancouver informs projects where site, spatial economy and daily life matter more than size.
07 / Studio
An independent studio, led directly.
Synthia Jahan Studio is led by Syn Jahan, a multidisciplinary designer with experience across building design, project delivery, resilient environments and emerging systems. Syn leads each commission directly, assembling registered professionals, engineers, landscape designers, fabricators and specialist collaborators around the project and its location. The studio leads concept and spatial direction. Where regulated professional services are required, those services are provided by registered professionals in the project jurisdiction.
Her experience includes built homes in Vancouver, commissioned hospitality and infrastructure concepts, commercial environments developed in prior roles at Fusion Projects and Gordon MacKenzie Architects for clients including Sony, Microsoft, Scotiabank, CIBC and the Victoria Cancer Centre, and product ownership within AI research ecosystems. She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Her independent visual-art practice is published as SYN.
08 / Contact
Begin with the place.
The studio works with developers, founders, landowners, institutions and private clients across Canada and internationally. Send the location, programme, current stage, approximate budget and what remains unresolved.
Canada-based · Working internationally
hello@synthiajahan.ca