A Single Family Residence in Colorado. It looks over Mesa Verde and Sleeping Ute Mountains. The project incorporate Faswall, a healthy, high performance ICF building blocks.

A single family residence located in a Historic District of Salt Lake City. The plan and design focuses on the backyard with ideas taken from “Engawa” a traditional Japanese terrace.

J Residence sits beautifully in a forest of Big Cottonwood Canyon. The unique design needs some upgrades , renovations, and addition to make it more easy to use.

This single family residence is planning to be a net zero with high insulated building envelop, solar panel, and heat recovery ventilator.

A building built in 1907 is going to be renovated and upgraded with new mechanical system, building insulation, finishes, kitchen, and bathrooms.

A single family residence with a great view of Swaner Preserve wetland and Canyons Ski Resort beyond. Simple rectilinear footprint provides access to the view from all rooms.  The large deck with roof cover protects the owner from the weather.  The light tower brings morning light over kitchen but it also work as natural ventilation tower when the automatic glass window opens.

Luther Studio Architects Project:   A single-family residence in high altitude with heavy snow accumulation.   The house was designed to live comfortably in severe snowfall.  All decks are covered with the flat roofs  They prevent snow from falling on the decks or snow to pile against building walls.  The site is irregular and steep but careful studies allowed a garage and main living space to be on a similar level. 

A remodel project of a house located in Avenues area. A mid-century home was transformed by an interior designer Kara DiOrio https://www.dioriodesign.com/  against an amazing background of City Creek Canyon.  The original building layout did not work well for what the owners were looking for.  Working with a structural engineer, some original walls and windows were removed to create larger simple volume. All windows were replaced with modern efficient glazing and new skylight were introduced to bring duffused light into the house. 

A beautiful mid-century modern home is getting renovated plus new addition to view the amazing surrounding.

A conceptual downtown Salt Lake City revitalization proposal.  It focuses on two immediate views, Great Salt Lake and Wasatch Mountains where they could be observed from proposed roof gardens and sky-walk bridges.  The roof gardens are created on top of abandoned buildings and accessed from the sky-walk bridges.  The sky-walk bridges are aligned to point two Utah's geological features, highest and lowest elevation marks. 

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Two banishing edge bathtubs that look over Mt. Fuji and Japanese Alps.  Sliding glass doors brings outdoor into the spa.  Special fiber-optic lighting was installed on the floors of the tubs, creating starry night effect.

Renovation project where 8 small existing hotel rooms were converted into 4 large comfortable size rooms. No structural modifications were performed by working with what is there as much as possible. Each room was designed  to have different character.