Amenity design is experience design.
Courtyards, rooftops, pool decks, podiums, lounges, and outdoor workspaces only work when they are shaped around how people gather, move, host, recharge, and remember a place.
Outdoor Amenity Design
Commercial landscape architecture tends to get the leftover space, whatever’s left once the units, the parking, and the budget are set, and then value engineering trims it again. Loft Six Four is a landscape architecture studio in Sandy, Utah, and we design the outdoor amenity as the room that leases the building. That means courtyards, pool decks, rooftops, podiums, lounges, dining areas, outdoor workspaces, and wellness spaces for multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, student housing, and urban residential projects across Salt Lake City and Utah.
70,500Sq ft outdoor system at 4th West
3 levelsSkyhouse rooftop + podium + street
13+Years of L64 outdoor experience work
NationalMultifamily, mixed-use, hospitality reach
Generic amenities disappear from memory.
A furniture layout is not a strategy. The outdoor environment needs zones, shade, lighting, planting, circulation, focal moments, and a reason for residents or guests to keep coming back.
The outdoor environment can carry the brand.
For mixed-use, hospitality, and multifamily projects, outdoor amenities often become the most photographed and most emotionally legible part of the project. They need to lease, sell, and feel alive.
Utah work, sorted by where it sits.
Salt Lake City has most of the published amenity work, at every level of the building: rooftops at 4th West, Skyhouse, and Sugar Alley, podium decks and pools at Post House, and ground-level courtyards and street landscape at 4th West, Skyhouse, and Park Avenue. Up in Park City, Park Station Condos is all ground level, the whole open space between the condo buildings, pools and hot tubs included. The rooftop, podium, and hotel pages linked below split that work by level, so a developer or architect can go straight to the one that matches the project.
Commercial landscape architecture in Utah.
Commercial landscape architecture is the outdoor side of buildings that have to earn their keep: apartments, condos, mixed-use, hotels, and office campuses. Ours runs from the 70,500 sq ft site landscape at 4th West in Salt Lake City to the ~5,000 sq ft Hidden Gem office rooftop at The Gateway and the campus at The Yard in Orem, which got a reason for tenants to stay without touching a single building. The steps are the usual ones, site analysis, concept, design development, and construction documents, and we stay on site through construction.
Top outdoor amenities for multifamily properties, counted.
We counted our eleven published Utah multifamily case studies. Nine are built around water: a pool, spa, or hot tub at 4th West, Park Avenue, Sugar Alley, Post House, The Grandeur, Slate, Embold, Parc on 5th, and Park Station Condos. The other two, Skyhouse and The Randi, are downtown Salt Lake City rooftops built around fire pits. From there the work is fitting each amenity to the residents, the climate, and the leasing plan.
Project proof
Specific work beats generic claims.
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FAQ
Answers for buyers and search engines.
What is outdoor amenity design?
Outdoor amenity design is the planning and design of shared exterior spaces for multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, student housing, and urban residential projects, including courtyards, rooftops, podiums, pool decks, lounges, dining areas, and outdoor workspaces.
What outdoor amenities add the most value to multifamily projects?
The most valuable outdoor amenities are the ones matched to the project’s residents, market, climate, and leasing strategy. Rooftop pools, shaded lounges, outdoor kitchens, fire features, courtyards, wellness areas, and flexible gathering spaces often perform well when designed as part of a complete experience.
How does outdoor amenity design support leasing?
Outdoor amenity design supports leasing by creating memorable spaces that photograph well, tour well, give residents a reason to gather, and make the property feel more distinctive than competing buildings.
Where has Loft Six Four designed outdoor amenities in Utah?
Most of Loft Six Four’s published amenity work is in Salt Lake City: 4th West, Skyhouse, and The Randi downtown, Post House in the Post District, Slate in Central Ninth, and Park Avenue and Sugar Alley in Sugar House. Beyond Salt Lake City, The Grandeur is in Holladay, Parc on 5th is in American Fork, and The Yard is in Orem. Up in Park City, Loft Six Four designed the whole amenity area between the buildings at Park Station Condos, for the HOA. St. George work includes the Dixie Tech campus. The studio is in Sandy, Utah.
Who designs outdoor amenity spaces for multifamily developments in Utah?
A pool, a grill, and a fire pit don’t set a building apart when the one across the street has them too. Loft Six Four, a landscape architecture studio in Sandy, Utah, designs amenities around the people who will live there. Embold in Lehi gives Silicon Slopes tech workers a pool deck, a fire pit lounge, and an iconic shade structure. Slate in Central Ninth uses a spa-cascade courtyard so smaller units live like big ones. Parc on 5th in American Fork was built around a resort-style pool. Beyond apartments, The Yard in Orem turned the space between an aging tech campus into a reason for tenants to stay.
Who designs amenity spaces at every level of a building, from the ground to the roof?
When the street, the podium, and the roof go to different consultants, a building can end up with three amenities that don’t connect. Loft Six Four has designed all three as one outdoor system on Salt Lake City buildings. Skyhouse downtown runs on three levels: a 13,000 sq ft rooftop, 12,000 sq ft of podium courtyards, and a street-level landscape. 4th West pairs a 26,000 sq ft rooftop lifestyle deck with four ground-level courtyards. Sugar Alley in Sugar House has rooftop and courtyard amenities over three podium levels.
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What does a commercial landscape architect do?
A commercial landscape architect plans and designs the outdoor spaces of income properties, such as apartments, mixed-use buildings, hotels, and office campuses. The work runs from site analysis and concept through construction documents and construction, and it covers planting, paving, pools, shade, lighting, and how each amenity gets used. Loft Six Four does this work across Utah from its studio in Sandy, from the 70,500 sq ft site landscape at 4th West to the campus at The Yard in Orem.
What are the top outdoor amenities for multifamily properties?
In Loft Six Four’s own Utah work, water leads: nine of the eleven multifamily case studies it has published are built around a pool, spa, or hot tub. The other two, Skyhouse and The Randi in downtown Salt Lake City, are rooftops built around fire pits. Shade, outdoor kitchens, and lounges next to indoor amenities round out the list. The right mix still depends on the residents, the climate, and the leasing plan.
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