Located in rural western Sonoma County, the project replaced an aging garage and added an artist studio to a pre-1900’s farm house. The design used prefabricated Quonset hut roofs raised on a six-foot high concrete wall. The buildings, each 20 feet by 36 feet, have end walls with 10 foot by 12 foot openings—a glass garage door and three folding patio doors opening out to the landscape. The garage or “car temple” as the owner calls it, exposes the ribs and the concrete on the interior. Imbedded in the exterior concrete wall is a stone relief from Borobudur, Indonesia.

The artist studio includes a wet bar and a bath with a sliding wood and metal barn door, reused from the client’s house. To maintain the light throughout the structure, there are translucent plastic panels above the concrete. The ash plywood panels on the ceiling, hide the insulation below the metal roof. The bench creating the exterior patio at the rear, was formed using the ribs of the roof.