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At night, the building glows like a lantern, making the two studios visible.

For the sink area in homeowner Annalisa Chasan's sculpture studio space, "Max and Tyler came up with the zinc countertop," says her husband Alex Martin. "It's cool to be working on a living finish." Here, sunlight streams in from street-facing clerestory windows, a feature the homeowners requested.

Architects Tyler Noblin and Max Obata covered the street-side facade in cedar shingles to better match the vernacular of the neighborhood and the property's own 1912 main house.

Cedar siding clads the building's garden-facing facade and eaves over the wraparound porch and will turn silver over time.

Locally sourced engineered flooring in the light-filled Pilates studio was easier on the budget and the body.

Annalisa Chasan's sculpture practice includes mainly ceramic vessels, "but because I'm a movement person, I'm also very interested in the body," she says, "so there are pieces that are inspired by the spine."

Multi-functional built-ins, like the blue cabinetry, can be seating, storage, and display for the artist's works and books.

The kiln is set in a dedicated niche in the "dense, opaque potion at the center of the plan," says architect Max Obata.

Waterproof tadelakt covers the bathroom, where the fixtures are from Vola.

A wall of windows overlook landscape views.

The traditional wood-fired oven acts as both a stove and a way to warm the home. “It’s really important because it has this presence of the history of the rural world. But we designed it and it’s made with rammed earth, which is a new thing [compared to] other traditional ovens,” says Tavares.

"Nature had taken over,