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Walden Studios, a working vineyard and mixed-use arts facility, is set in a broad valley in Northern California. The design is a powerful pairing of a straightforward concept and a restrained palette of materials that reflects the scale and quality of the larger agricultural landscape. A requirement that the renovated building be raised for flood protection became the inspiration for the resulting design concept: a series of piers extending out into a sea of vineyards.