SHED

Making the Modern Grange

A prefab wine country market hall becomes a place for commerce and community.

The Agrarian Mind

SHED founders Cindy Daniel and Doug Lipton came to Jensen Architects with a vision for a modern grange, a place where visitors as well as locals would gather to share food, stories and local knowledge. Their goal was to strengthen and make tangible the essential connection between the land, its cultivation, and the vitality of their community. Working closely with the founders, JENSEN gave form to their concept, reinterpreting the traditional barn typology in a bold, prefabricated metal structure and defining an innovative blend of retail, restaurant, and social space.

Multiple Zones

At SHED visitors discover a variety of ways to connect and to enjoy the region’s foods. On the ground floor, a hybrid program of market café, mercantile store, larder and gathering places is organized in an unconventional plan of overlapping zones intended to foster interaction and exchange. Visitors can also stop in for coffee, selections from the fermentation bar, or seasonal dishes. The offerings are available to go, but a communal table and more intimate seating woven throughout the space invite people to linger. Upstairs a flexible hall hosts meetings, workshops and events of all sorts.

Barn Raiser

SHED’s architecture resonates with Healdsburg’s past while also engaging in its present-day culture. Referencing a familiar presence in the local landscape, JENSEN employed a utilitarian pre-engineered metal building system commonly known as a Butler building, to create a barn structure that is contemporary rather than nostalgic. Adding glazed garage doors on both levels and a glass curtainwall in front required collaboration with the manufacturer, but the result — a heightened transparency and stronger connections to the street — strengthens SHED’s presence within the town’s center. As an added bonus, the building system uses 70% recycled metal as well as energy-saving, insulated metal-panel cladding.

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On the Watershed

SHED overlooks Foss Creek, a tributary of the Russian River, and taking care of the creek was a given. The team engaged experts from Russian Riverkeeper, a nonprofit working to conserve and protect the river and its watershed. The resultant design is SHED’s Creekside garden, a riparian habitat that works to remove pollutants and minimize erosion. Roof drains, permeable paving, and other site infrastructure all channel storm water to the garden, which uses, filters, and stores the water, before slowly releasing runoff into Foss Creek.

Type: Mixed-Use

Client: Cindy Daniel & Doug Lipton

Location: Healdsburg

Awards

2016 AIA Redwood Empire, Honor Award

2015 Chicago Athenaeum, American Architecture Award 

2015 AIA San Francisco, Merit Award

2014 James Beard Foundation Awards, Outstanding Restaurant Design 

2014 IIT, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Nominee

2014 Architect Magazine,  Citation Award

2014 Architizer A+ Design Awards, Retail Finalist

2013 International Design Awards, Honorable Mention

2013 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards,  Finalist

Press

Commercial Architecture Magazine, “Modern Design in Wine Country,” December 2018

Bon Appetit, “When Cindy Daniel Opened Shed,” February 2015

Azure Magazine, “A Handsome Culinary Space in Sonoma County,” July 2014

Conde Magazine, “Architizer A+ Awards,” June 2014

Martha Stewart Living, “A Growing  Experience,” June 2014

New York Times, “Beard Award  Winners,” March 2014

Interior Design, “Best of Year Awards,” December 2013

The Architects Newspaper, “Shed Store and Cafe,” August 2013

Architectural Record, “The Modern Grange,” July 2013

Wallpaper*, “Editor’s Picks,” June 2013

The Wall Street Journal, “A Perfect Long Weekend in Healdsburg,” May 2013

Architects

Project Leads: Mark Jensen; Lincoln Lighthill; Dean Orr

Project Team: Scott Davis; Olya Piskun

Consultants

Structural: ZFA Structural Engineers

Civil: Atterbury & Associates

Geotechnical: PJC Associates

Surveyor: Curtis & Associates Land Surveying

Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing: Guttmann & Blaevoet

Food Service: Muller Design Associates

Landscape: Russian Riverkeeper

Interiors: Cindy Daniel; Sue Volkel; Cathy Smith; Scott Constable; Jeremy Foster

Graphics: Boon; futurprüf

Contractor

Oliver & Company

Photographer

Mariko Reed

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