Powder Mountain,
Utah
Powder Mountain,
Utah
This neighbourhood located on a mountainto in Utah's Wasatch Range will form part of a Utopian Community based on the values of community, ecology, and creativity that will be the home base for the Summit Series.
Twenty-seven cabins, consisting of four sub-types, and ranging in size from 1,000 sf to 2,500 sf are clustered to form a series of communal courtyards/microclimates. A 'lost library' provides a meditative gathering place for the neighbourhood while a larger lodge provides for gatherings for the larger mountain community. A series of lantern-like garages serve the cabins.
Given the typically more than 500 inches of snowfall per year, and in order to touch the land lightly, the buildings are supported on steel stilts, which continue as the primary structural frame exposed on the interiors, in response to powerful wind loads. All cabins are accessed by steel exterior bridges. The cabin walls are clad in vertical, match book cedar boards, with cedar shingled roofs. The lodge and 'Library" are completely clad in cedar shingles. This consistency of both form and material palette is intended to bring a level of understated unity to the mountain development.
Awards
2021 Wood Design & Building Awards
2021 AIA Western Mountain Region Awards, Honor Award
2020 Wood Design & Building Awards, Merit Award
2020 Dezeen, Dezeen Awards Longlist
2019 Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor’s Medal of Excellence
Design Team
Brian MacKay-Lyons
Jennifer Esposito
Duncan Patterson
Talbot Sweetapple
Matt Jones
Jonny Leger
William Green
Will Perkins
Reid Joslin
Farhan Durrani
Sawa Rostkowska
Diana Carl
Ben Fuglevand
Diana Carl
Tyler Reynolds
Paulette Cameron
Photography
Paul Bundy
Doublespace Photography
Structural Engineer
Blackwell Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical Systems and Services Inc.
SMD Engineering
Electrical Engineer
Salmon Electrical Contractors
Civil Engineer
Watts Enterprises
NV5
Landscape Design
Langvardt Design Group
Special Consultants
Think Architecture
Innovatrive Building Envelope Consultants Inc.
BNA
Builder
Wilde West Development LLC