{"id":136866,"date":"2025-11-15T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:19:10","slug":"prospect-berkshires-features-cedar-clad-cabins-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136866\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospect Berkshires features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins<\/a> around a lake in Massachusetts<\/a>, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant.<\/p>\n

Local design-build company Alander Construction<\/a> designed the dozens of structures that spread across the shore at Prospect Lake, forming what the team refers to as a “year-round landscape hotel”.<\/p>\n

\"ProspectProspect Berkshires in a cabin hotel in Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Prospect Berkshires<\/a> is situated on what was once a campground that had fallen into disrepair in the scenic Berkshires region of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Alander Construction’s Ian Rasch and Roman Montano worked with Rasch’s wife, designer Jade-Snow Carroll, to conceptualise the forty-nine cabins on the site, convert a 19th-century structure into a welcome centre, build saunas, and a pool house.<\/p>\n

\"ProspectIt features forty nine cabins oriented to emphasise views of the landscape<\/p>\n

First, the site needed to be brought up to date and masterplanned. The team worked with New York-based design studio Gans and Company<\/a> to create the layout for the 30-acre property, orienting the cabins in a way that maintains privacy while allowing for accessibility.<\/p>\n

Rasch and Carroll, who also operate the hotel, were also updated a local dam, working with the Army Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n

“We’re hoping that that will actually help with the health of the lake long term, because what the dam has been broken for a very long time,” said Carroll, who grew up in the area.<\/p>\n

\"CliffAn 1870s building was converted into a restaurant and a welcome centre for Prospect Berkshires<\/p>\n

The restaurant on the site, Cliff House, was built using the bones and footprint of a 1870s structure on the lakeshore.<\/p>\n

This existing structure had an American chestnut frame, some of which was preserved and used as framing for the new, wood-clad restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"ProspectElements of the historic structure were maintained at Cliff House<\/p>\n

Some of the chestnut wood that was not used in the final design was given to designer Ben Bloomstein of design studio Green River Project LLC<\/a>, who turned it into furniture.<\/p>\n

Layers of sheet rock had been built up, so the team “took it back to the bare bones” and rebuilt it.<\/p>\n

\"PineThe cabins feature simple interiors with pine walls<\/p>\n

The new building has a wraparound porch, standing-steam metal roof and a new wooden structure.<\/p>\n

A similar design with wooden exteriors and a sloping roof was used for the pool house, which features a large overhang that covers a lounge area and saunas and changing rooms inside.<\/p>\n

\"ProspectA poolhouse features a slanted roof and covered lounge area<\/p>\n

The cabins themselves were designed by Alander Construction and fabricated by Amish building studio Zook Cabins<\/a> in Pennsylvania. Each was constructed on a chassis and delivered to the site.<\/p>\n

These cedar-clad structures are mostly closed on one side, with large windows to frame landscape views, pine interiors and pops of colour in the interior fixtures.<\/p>\n

They come in two different sizes, one with a bathroom and one without, and were designed to be subtle in order to emphasise the surroundings.<\/p>\n

\"WoodenA wooden pavilion sits at the centre of the property<\/p>\n

“That was always part of the design, being in the landscape as much as possible,” Carroll told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We’re bombarded with so much information already, so having a quiet space and letting nature be the thing that you’re looking at or that you’re engaging with, as opposed to engaging so much in the cabin, was important. But I wanted it to be comfortable as well.”<\/p>\n

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Landscape designer Raina Weber<\/a> worked with landscape studio Andropogon Associates<\/a> and environmental consultants BioHabitats<\/a> to implement native plantings. More than 2,500 trees were planted as “wetland gardens” on the lakeshore.<\/p>\n

“These interventions helped cool the site, attract pollinators, and stabilize the shoreline,” said the team.<\/p>\n

\"SaunasSaunas and a dock were built on the shoreline<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the site, a large wooden pavilion with a polycarbonate roof allows for outdoor gatherings. Personal saunas and dock infrastructure were placed on the lakeshore.<\/p>\n

Other hospitality projects that use multiple structures to integrate guests with the landscape include a collection of mirrored cabins designed by \u00d6\u00d6D in Oregon, USA<\/a> and a resort made up of A-frame cabins by Skylab in Colorado, USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Cole Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,33267,33268,12837,93441,501,156,20285,9593,5002,111,139,69,1621,1774,3337],"class_list":{"0":"post-136866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-boutique-hotels","13":"tag-cabin-hotels","14":"tag-cabins","15":"tag-cedar","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-hotels","19":"tag-landscape-architecture","20":"tag-massachusetts","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-sectionall","25":"tag-sectionarchitecture","26":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}