ABSTRACT
Henry Scollard, founder of HANK, helped his clients reimagine an existing 17-room former truck stop motel into a hotel that includes 48 guest rooms, a lounge, restaurant, and pool all set on 50 acres in the Berkshires of north western Massachusetts, in North Adams and within three miles of Mount Greylock, MASS MoCA, and the Clark Art Institute. The hotel design intentionally plays off of the differences between hotels and motels and seeks to find the balance between public and private, movement and stasis, and the familiar and the new. Landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand worked closely with the architect to sculpt the site, connecting the central courtyard to the ten-foot drop below the level of the road, creating a space of quiet stillness and separation from the external world. The design team worked to transfer some of the property's history by converting an existing ranch house into the lodge and gathering space and repurposing a farmhouse, originally built in 1813, to become the bar and restaurant.
