The Axboe house is a study in transparent indoor-outdoor modern mountain living. The home is sited on the north side of the Synderville basin, Utah, over looking the greater Park City Area and the ski areas beyond. The challenge was to design a home sited naturally, accommodating a family of 4, and to create a sense connection to the mountain environment. Working tightly with the clients, who expertly handled the interior finishing and design, we came up with three masses arranged and oriented to create transitional spaces between. Each mass houses either private or public functions, and thus its ceiling heights and proportions mimic that methodology, allowing more airy light filled spaces in the living and dining while pulling down to more human relationships in the private bed and bathrooms. Aesthetically, the house is perceived as a looking box to the beyond mountain ranges, tapering down its massing to allow for ample out door decks and patios that transition to the adjacent spaces. In tune with our firms design ethos, the homes energy performance is helped with double stud wall construction, triple pane european windows, windows / orientation / massing per passive solar methods, and a air tight barrier.