PACHANO+CORE

We are a full service design build office working in the Berkshires, Western Massachusetts, the Hudson Valley, New York, City and beyond. We aim to elevate the quality of people’s lives through architecture by creating spaces that inspire discovery. Our approach is simultaneously exploratory, technical, and responsive to requirements of the project and sites on which we build. We intuitively reveal possibilities latent within every brief over a range of project types and landscapes in tandem with integrated construction services. From the first to last phase, we deliver design and building knowledge and exprertise as an integrated process.

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BELOW THE STONES
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Our brief called for multiple spaces for reflection, rejuvenation and spiritual awakening within a small footprint. The site was bordered by a large stone outcropping to the West and a flowing landscape of grass, trees and stones like pillows among the ferns.

We apporached the brief from the outside in, connecting the interiors to the sloping ground with elevated views and sloping vistas. The shape of the roof was intended to follow the tilt in the terrain. The entry is a combined screened room and mudroom. Several rooms were to serve a dual purpose as well: well-ness room/sleeping porch; studio/guest room; office/meditation. The apporach from the long drive leading into the site revealed the building clearly and frontally in order to make a visual connection between its shape and the curvature of the land.