An independent practice working across buildings, digital tools and visual identities, with close attention to how people live, work and make.
Led by Syn Jahan · Canada · Working internationally
A meditation on seeing. PIGMENT asks you to look more deeply: to notice what you see, what you assume, and how it makes you feel.
A colour-study instrument for painters. Estimate a colour in context, then reveal the sampled patch. Studio starts with the paints you own.
Deployable medical microfactories, remote manufacturing and modular campuses. Technical programmes organised around workflow and human use.
Product direction for an AI coordination agent that connects community needs with earlier offers. From interaction logic to evaluation and live demonstration.
Distinct identities for Open Build, Commons / HyperSprint 01 and BGI Sprint, developed into guidelines, applications and production handoffs.
Compact homes led through design development, permit coordination and delivery as Lead Designer and Project Manager at Smallworks.
A Phase 1 concept and feasibility study on the Bangladesh coast. A dry plinth, wet-tolerant ground plane and shaded public frontage organise the proposal.
Feasibility, concept design, spatial and material direction for housing, hospitality and deployable environments.
Product definition, interaction models, prototypes and evaluation. Making the behaviour of a system clear to the people using it.
Visual identities, communication systems and production guidance that carry an idea consistently across formats.
Compact dwelling, private outdoor rooms and the relationship between individual space and shared land.
An independent study in development. Environmental performance, construction and settlement systems remain open research questions.
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Syn Jahan is an architectural designer, product owner and visual artist. Her practice connects spaces, tools and visual systems.
Her experience spans built Vancouver homes at Smallworks, commissioned hospitality and infrastructure concepts, and commercial work in prior roles at Fusion Projects and Gordon MacKenzie Architects for clients including Sony, Microsoft, Scotiabank, CIBC and the Victoria Cancer Centre.
She leads projects directly, bringing in collaborators as needed. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Design and Fine Arts, and publishes her independent art practice as SYN.
Where regulated architectural or engineering services are required, those services are provided by registered professionals in the project jurisdiction.
For commissions and collaborations, share your project, its current stage and where design could help.
hello@synthiajahan.caCanada-based · Working internationally
