Northlight | San Anselmo

“A light here required a shadow there.” – Adeline Virginia Wolff

Originally a furniture store, recently a dance school, and now a fine artist’s studio, this project attempts to harness natural light and shadow as essentials of an artist’s workspace. The reconfigured front façade, allows diffused illumination via large north-facing openings; high and wide at the painting studio, low and tall at sidewalk entry gallery. The rear sculpture space (where directional light is a good thing) has an immense skylight and full-height sliding doors that allow manually controlled work light. At the rear of the building, a new addition with an extra-wide rollup door accommodates a wood, metal, and framing shop plus shelving and racks filled with future projects materials and ideas.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

ZFA Structural Engineers

GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Upscale Construction

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

MHC Mechanical Engineering

ENVELOPE CONSULT.

Blanco Architecture

CASp CONSULT.

CalAccessibility

PHOTOGRAPHER

Margaret Austin