Traverse Heights Office Building

From conception, the drive behind the Traverse Heights Office Building has been to create an ultra-unique top-of-market workplace product that appeals to high-net-worth companies. Sited on a prominent bluff overlooking the I-15 corridor with views over the Wasatch range, the building has a dynamic form that reaches out over Utah Valley. Structurally, the building is entirely concrete – post-tension suspended slabs, columns, and shear walls. This not only avoided prohibitive lead times in the steel joist and deck market but created an unparalleled interior space with an entirely flat slab ceiling with a clear height of 12 feet for the office. Drawing on east-Asian techniques of asymmetry with balance, the building flows from exterior to interior uninterrupted. Taking advantage of sophisticated heating and cooling systems allowed the design team to create a façade made completely of vision glass spanning from floor to floor, with no opaque panels. Intensely involved at every turn, the ownership group drove the design team to execute their vision of beauty defined by minimalist simplicity and an exceptional material palette.