Summit House (Auraria Campus Mixed-Use Development)

Summit House is a large-scale mixed-use mass timber development on Denver’s Auraria Campus designed to expand student and workforce housing while showcasing low-carbon structural design. The project utilizes a hybrid system with two levels of concrete supporting ten levels of exposed mass timber construction. The structure incorporates CLT floor panels and glulam framing manufactured from Douglas Fir to reduce embodied carbon and accelerate installation compared to conventional steel or concrete systems. The building will house more than 550 students and include academic collaboration space, a Classroom-to-Career Hub, and ground-floor retail. The exposed timber system is intended to create a warm, biophilic interior environment while demonstrating the scalability of mass timber high-rise construction in Colorado.