Embold
Apartments
Lehi, Utah · Silicon Slopes
The Brief
Embold Apartments sits at the center of the Silicon Slopes tech corridor in northern Utah Valley. Multifamily housing in the area was thin. Most tech workers commuted thirty miles north to find a place that felt worth living in.
Wasatch Residential Group set out to flip that pattern. The plan was simple to say and hard to do: deliver a building people would choose over the drive.
The corner is a high-traffic site at Lehi’s urban edge. From the freeway, the project would either disappear into the suburban backdrop or become a landmark. There wasn’t a middle option.
And the city’s design review wanted proof of contribution — not just another apartment block. The amenity scope had to earn its way into approval.
Standout Features
Project Film
The canopy becomes the landmark.
Embold needs motion because the signature is spatial: the canopy changes by angle, light, and distance. Video makes the geometry legible in a way a single still cannot.
Our Approach
Drawing inspiration from nature, the design team created a concept as organic as a tree and as majestic as a bird in flight. The angular structure looks different from every angle.
The corner needed an anchor. We held a design charrette with the whole team — pens, trace paper, ideas on top of ideas. Once a concept landed that everyone got excited about, we built a folded paper model. That became the guide as the design moved into the computer.
From paper to SketchUp to fabricator. The 3D model went straight to the shop. Each component was built so it could be seamlessly assembled on site — no guessing from 2D plans.
The fractal pattern casts an intriguing shadow on the ground and water below. From the street, it captures attention. From the clubhouse, it’s the first thing prospective residents see when they look toward the pool.
It became more than shade. It became a symbol — for the building, for the city, and for what Silicon Slopes residential could be.
What if your amenity
was the city’s landmark?
Embold’s canopy didn’t just shade the pool. It became a Lehi landmark — cited in city economic development materials as a representation of the Silicon Slopes lifestyle. Your project has the same lever.
Imagine This for Your Project →I can’t imagine doing what we did from 2D drawings. We built it in sections at our shop — sections that could trailer on I-15. Then we reassembled them in storage. We used a few machines to walk it down the street to the crane. It lined up with the wall pretty good
Shane Kershaw Waterscape Landscaping
Results
The iconic shade structure and high-quality pool amenity were key to securing city design review approval for the project’s configuration of the site. Approval first — then everything that followed.
Over 10 percent of residents hang out at the pool deck on any given weeknight. That’s the kind of usage number that proves the amenity isn’t a brochure shot — it’s the building’s living room.
The property holds an average rating of 5 stars on both Google Reviews and Apartments.com, with multiple reviews mentioning the “unmatched amenities.”
When the outdoor space becomes the brand platform, the math works in every direction at once.
“The fractal canopy became more than shade. It became a symbol.”
Project Summary
Your project deserves
this level of thinking.
Whether you’re a developer, architect, or builder — if your outdoor space needs to define the project, we should talk.