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This Wabi-Sabi Residence Draws upon Japanese Aesthetic Culture

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Sparano + Mooney Architecture's daring and sustainably designed residence is nestled into a canyon high above Salt Lake City. ‘Wabi-Sabi’ is an ancient, philosophical tenet of Japanese aesthetic culture that embraces the imperfect, incomplete, and transient. It espouses simplicity and honesty in expression, those modest things in our world that convey beauty as they weather and age. Based on this very principle, the design of this home, located in Emigration Canyon above Salt Lake City, references the relationships among the mountain, vegetation, and wildlife found on the site – an expression of both, static and dynamic elements in nature. The […]

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