Horizon Neighborhood
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Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
Stuv 30 compact & Stuv 21-105Stûv
Miscellaneous bathroom faucets and control package 1Hansgrohe SE
Miscellaneous plumbing fixtures, toilets, sinksDuravit
Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 3Sub-Zero/Wolf
WT-IPE-48 palletized wood deck & Versadjust adjustable pedestalsBison Deck Supports
Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 1Bosch

Product Spec Sheet
Stuv 30 compact & Stuv 21-105
Miscellaneous bathroom faucets and control package 1
Miscellaneous plumbing fixtures, toilets, sinks
by Duravit
Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 3
WT-IPE-48 palletized wood deck & Versadjust adjustable pedestals
Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 1
by Bosch

Horizon Neighborhood

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects as Architects

Horizon is the first pre-designed neighborhood to be built at 9,000 feet elevation on Powder Mountain, Utah. It consists of 30 cabins ranging in size from 1,000- 3,000 square feet, along with a series of strategically placed garages, and a communal lodge called the ‘Pioneer Cabin’ for the use of the homeowners. Buyers choose from four typologies, which either follow the contours like mountain goats, or are cross-grain, projecting off the mountainside like extreme skiers. The cabins are then customized for each owner. The theme and variation strategy, in combination with the dramatic topography, results in a neighborhood that has a powerful sense of both unity and variety. The first eight cabins are now complete, with subsequent units under construction.


Commissioned as a home base for Summit Series, an ambitious speaker program that attracts a community of innovators and social impact investors from a broad range of fields, this new village is an architectural expression of Summit’s values: community building, climate responsiveness and land stewardship. This isn’t another ski resort, but rather a planned community for entrepreneurs and creatives working together to address global challenges.


The cabins are aggregated around courtyards in a way that maximizes both community and privacy to foster chance meetings and social interactions. The experience of passing from garages, between units and under bridges is like a game of ‘Snakes and Ladders’. The siting of the buildings and bridges was also carefully organized to minimize views into neighboring units, while framing unobstructed, southwest sunset views.


Climate responsiveness begins with passive solar orientation, combined with thermal mass concrete floors and hydronic-in-floor heating. The steel stilts make the buildings light on the fragile high desert landscape. A series of protected courtyards create micro-climates in an otherwise open, windswept landscape. The dense neighborhood will allow the majority of Powder Mountain’s 11,500 acres to remain undeveloped, and conserved for future generations.


MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple’s modest cabins stand in contrast to the excessive architecture that is now typical of resorts in the Mountain West. Each cabin consists of a cedar-shingled roof and vertical shiplap cedar walls inspired by the cedar clad barns of the Eden valley below. Aluminum-clad wood windows, and cedar interiors complete the monolithic sculptural effect called ‘Heritage Modern’ by the clients. The cabins are accessed on the second floor via steel bridges due to the extremely high annual snowfall that gives Powder Mountain its name.


This is MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple’s first completed project of many currently in construction in the United States since opening a satellite studio in Denver last year. The practice is well known for drawing on regional building practices and material culture, and looking to local climate and landscape, to create responsive contemporary architecture that expresses archetypal qualities and universal resonance. Similar village making projects include a recent collection of cabins on Bigwin Island in Muskoka, Ontario, Golden Groves at Margaree in Cape Breton, and Shobac Farm in Nova Scotia, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.


Material Used :

1. STUV – Stuv 30 compact & Stuv 21-105

2. Bison Innovative Products –WT-IPE-48 palletized wood deck & Versadjust adjustable pedestals

3. TRA Snow and Sun –Snow Bracket F snow guard

4. Lammin – aluminum clad wood windows

5. Owens Corning – Formular 150 or 250XPS insulation

6. Duravit –Miscellaneous plumbing fixtures, toilets, sinks

7. Hansgrohe – Miscellaneous bathroom faucets and control package 1

8. California Faucets –Miscellaneous bathroom faucets and control package 2

9. Bosch – Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 1

10. Thermador – Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 2

11. Subzero/Wolf –Miscellaneous kitchen appliances – package 3

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