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Awarded the National Association of Home Builders 2024 Home of the Year, our design celebrates the beauty of impermanence and imperfection.

The Burch Creek Residence incorporates elements of ‘mono no aware’ (a Japanese aesthetic based in the fleeting and varying beauty of nature) and ‘wabi-sabi’ (an aesthetic embracing concepts of impermanence, imperfection and incompleteness).

Celebrating the movement of water, the home introduces itself as a layered experience. Residents and guests travel through a sequence of carefully composed scales of space and shifting lighting conditions towards the cascading staircase, as each space focuses the eye on the creek bed below.

EDA organized the compact floor plan around a central courtyard to capture both expansive regional and intimate landscaped views. A central “brahmasthan,” inspired by Vedic architecture, acts as the spatial nexus of the home, enhancing both horizontal and vertical connectivity.

Consistent with EDA’s ethos of modernism, the open floor plan is articulated by low cubes for storage or high cubes erupting through the roof’s horizontal plane to define the central hearth and chimney. Within the open plan we used materials such as handmade bricks and artist-designed fixtures to define intimate spaces within the home.

To meet the needs of Holladay’s growing community, EDA re-envisioned the Cottonwood Country Club clubhouse as a landmark destination in the Salt Lake valley, featuring contemporary amenities and modern design. The site offers enviable views of the nearby mountains and natural water features that flow through the site. Juxtaposed against this backdrop, the building stands solidly on a foundation of cast concrete, with an imprint of board-formed wood grain to evoke the surrounding woody landscape. A dramatic porte-cochere frames the entrance, inviting visitors into the stick-framed wood lobby. The interior of the building features central circulation, providing connection between dining, banquet rooms, decks, pools and tennis courts.

The design purposefully fits within its surroundings while being worthy of the Club's reputation. We began by developing a series of vignettes to demonstrate how our solution for the new concessions building could appeal to users without standing out or impacting the views. The enlarged concessions building features a full commercial kitchen and lounge area with an extensive green roof over a portion of the building and outdoor dining space. The existing competitive lap pool was replaced by a larger, updated six-lane competitive swimming pool with a zero entry for younger swimmers and interactive water spray.