Architecture · Interiors · Master Planning — Salt Lake City & Provo, Utah
Meridian Atelier is a twenty-two-person architecture studio working across the Intermountain West. We draw slowly, build carefully, and measure our work in decades of daylight — not renderings. Every project begins the same way: with the land, a pencil, and an argument worth resolving.
Four built projects, 2028–2031. Each drawn, detailed, and administered in-house from first sketch to final punch list.
Mountain residence
A family retreat set just below the tree line at Sundance, organized as two shed-roofed volumes that step with the grade rather than cutting it. Board-formed concrete anchors the house against snow load and time; a forty-foot run of low-iron glass frames Timpanogos without ever competing with it. The clients asked for a house their grandchildren would argue over. We believe we delivered the argument.
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Cultural pavilion
A public gallery and gathering hall at the edge of the Great Salt Lake, won in open competition against forty-one entries. A single 312-foot timber canopy — glue-laminated Douglas fir on sixteen slender steel columns — shelters exhibitions, school groups, and lake research programs beneath one continuous curve. The building consumes 68% less energy than code baseline and returns its stormwater to the shore it sits on.
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Office campus
A 140,000-square-foot workplace campus in Lehi for a software company that had outgrown three buildings and one culture. Three stacked bars slide past one another to carve courtyards from the parking-lot geometry the site inherited, putting every desk within thirty feet of operable glass. Mass-timber structure, exposed throughout, cut the embodied carbon of a conventional core-and-shell by roughly a third.
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Restoration & addition
An 1898 sandstone chapel in Provo, water-damaged and slated for demolition, returned to service as a neighborhood concert hall. We repointed 14,000 square feet of masonry with lime mortar matched from core samples, rebuilt the timber roof trusses in place, and added nothing louder than a glazed narthex — drawn dashed, the way new work should enter an old room: politely, and legibly.
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What we believe, stated plainly enough to be held against us.
“A building is a promise made in material. Our job is to make promises the land can keep.”
— Studio charter, first page, 2014
We walk every site before we accept every commission — in at least two seasons when the schedule allows. The slope, the storm path, the neighbor's window: these are clients too, and they never change their minds.
Every project in this portfolio began as graphite on vellum. We use the full modern toolchain — energy modeling, daylight simulation, fabrication-level BIM — but the thinking happens by hand, where hesitation is still visible.
Fashion amortizes badly. We specify materials by their fiftieth year, not their first photograph: concrete that weathers, wood that silvers, details that a future tradesperson can understand without calling us.
Full service, from feasibility napkin to final punch list. One contract, one team, one set of hands on the drawings.
New construction across residential, cultural, workplace, and civic work — full design and construction administration.
Interiors drawn with the same rigor as the shell: millwork, lighting, and furniture resolved to the sixteenth of an inch.
Campus and district frameworks that survive their phase-two budget meeting — density, open space, and phasing logic.
Historic tax-credit experience, Secretary of the Interior standards, and a genuine affection for buildings older than us.
Zoning analysis, massing studies, and public-hearing representation before a dollar of design fee is at risk.
A small line of tables, hardware, and light fixtures developed for our projects and built by Utah fabricators.
Juries are not clients, but we are grateful when they agree with ours.
| Year | Honor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | AIA Utah Honor Award — Residential | Ridge House |
| 2031 | Intermountain Design Review, Jury Citation | Great Basin Pavilion |
| 2030 | AIA Utah Firm of the Year | Studio-wide |
| 2030 | AIA Utah Merit Award — Public Architecture | Great Basin Pavilion |
| 2029 | Wasatch Sustainability Prize, Workplace | Slopes Commons |
| 2028 | AIA Utah Heritage Award — Preservation | Maeser Street Chapel |
| 2028 | Utah Heritage Council, Adaptive Reuse Citation | Maeser Street Chapel |
Twenty-two of us. Six who will answer for everything.
Founding Principal, FAIA
Founded the studio in a Provo garage in 2014. Still reviews every set that leaves the office, red pencil first.
Principal, AIA · Design Director
Leads competitions and cultural work. Believes every plan should survive being drawn at 1:500 and lived in at 1:1.
Principal, AIA · Technical Director
Keeper of the detail library and the studio's zero-litigation record. Flashing is a moral matter here because of her.
Associate Principal · Preservation Lead
Directed the Maeser Street Chapel restoration. Can date a mortar joint by eye within a decade, and will.
Director of Interiors
Runs interior architecture and the furniture line. Insists a stair rail is the one detail every hand will judge.
Director of Planning & Entitlements
Former city planner. Has presented at 130 public hearings and still reads every zoning ordinance footnote first.
We accept eight to ten new commissions each year, reviewed quarterly.
Tell us about the land, the brief, and the horizon — a paragraph is enough to begin. Every inquiry receives a written response from a principal within ten working days.
