Rangr Studio’s addition to the Berkeley Chess School’s existing building provides ADA access, a cafe and new classroom. To stay within the non-profit’s budget, so we got to thinking “what can we do with small (inexpensive) glass?” The idea of a chessboard facade came immediately to mind. Inexpensive to build, a storefront wall uses ordinary tinted and translucent panes of glass to create the image of a chessboard. Visitors, students and teachers enter the building at the side of the facade, behind the chessboard window, metaphorically and literally entering the world of chess.