OUR STORY

STUDIO309 is a biophilic interior design studio based in British Columbia, shaping the interior experience of architecture through light, materiality, spatial planning, proportion, texture, and natural rhythm.

Guided by environmental psychology and human-centered design, we create residential, hospitality, wellness, and community-focused interiors that support how people live, work, gather, recover, and move through daily life.

Our work looks beyond how a space appears. We consider how daylight, views, materials, acoustics, movement, enclosure, sensory experience, and connection to nature shape how an interior feels and functions over time.

At its core, STUDIO309 brings clarity, strategy, and design intelligence to complex spatial decisions, creating interiors that are grounded, functional, restorative, and deeply connected to place.

About STUDIO309

Before founding STUDIO309, Jennell had the opportunity to contribute to the design team at MGA on Ronald McDonald House BC, a project that deeply shaped her understanding of how the built environment can support people during some of life’s most vulnerable moments.

That experience became a defining influence in her work. It revealed that design is not only about how a space looks, but how it holds people — how it can offer comfort, clarity, dignity, and a sense of calm when daily life feels uncertain.

Today, this perspective continues to ground STUDIO309’s approach. The studio believes that thoughtful design is both emotional and practical: it considers the rhythms of daily life, the needs of the body, the role of nature, and the quiet details that help people feel more settled in their environment.

Through a biophilic and human-centered lens, STUDIO309 creates interiors that support wellbeing, connection, and restoration. Each space is approached with care, intention, and an understanding that the environments we inhabit have a measurable impact on how we feel, function, and live.

The work of STUDIO309 is shaped by both professional experience and personal history.

When Finnley was diagnosed with leukemia, Jennell came to understand the relationship between space and wellbeing in a profound and deeply personal way. In the middle of hospital visits, uncertainty, exhaustion, and hope, the environment became part of the experience.

She noticed how much the body responds to space when it is under stress. Harsh lighting, noise, lack of privacy, cold materials, and disorienting layouts could make an already difficult moment feel heavier. In contrast, softness, daylight, natural texture, quiet, warmth, and a connection to the outside world could offer moments of relief.

These were not decorative details. They were human needs.

Finnley’s experience gave Jennell a lasting understanding that design has consequences. The spaces we inhabit influence how we regulate, how we rest, how we connect, and how we endure. This understanding continues to guide her work today.

Through STUDIO309, Jennell brings this awareness into every project. Her approach to biophilic design is rooted in the belief that interiors should support the whole person — physically, emotionally, and psychologically. A well-designed space should not demand attention. It should quietly support the people within it, helping them feel more grounded, more connected, and more at ease in their daily lives.

Finnley’s story remains a powerful part of why this work matters.

It is the reason STUDIO309 approaches design not as surface, but as support.

At STUDIO309, we believe the spaces we inhabit have a profound influence on how we feel, function, heal, and connect.

Our philosophy is shaped by lived experience and an understanding that design is not simply about beauty, but about support. Through personal and professional experiences in spaces of care, vulnerability, and restoration, we have seen how the built environment can either add weight to daily life or help ease it.

This belief guides everything we do.

We approach interiors as living environments that affect the body, the nervous system, and the rhythms of everyday life. Light, texture, sound, materiality, spatial flow, and connection to nature are not decorative details. They are essential parts of how a space is experienced.

Rooted in biophilic and human-centered design, STUDIO309 creates interiors that feel calm, grounded, intuitive, and deeply connected to the people who inhabit them.

We believe meaningful design should support wellbeing without demanding attention. It should offer comfort, clarity, beauty, and a sense of belonging. It should help people feel more connected to themselves, to others, and to the natural rhythms that sustain them.

For us, design is not surface.

It is care, translated into space.