This house takes advantage of being on the edge. It is on the edge of Utah Lake, which was on the edge of being polluted and forgotten, but is starting to be seen for what it is - a fine metaphor. Being on the edge can be illuminating. You can be fully exposed, seemingly immersed, but maintain the characteristics of the place you really stand. Here we play with proximity, progressive sequencing, differentiation through massing, and the simplicity of visual and auditory immersion by choice. But before we get too brainy, this project is also on an edge between clients with different priorities, an aversion to ostentation, a commitment to function and simplicity, and paradoxically an aversion to modernism as a “style.” What comes from perching on all these boundaries?