About the Green + Screen ProjectPenn Ave Arts Initiative (PAAI) has grant applications out for Green + Screen Project along Penn Avenue (Mathilda St to Negley Ave). PAAI has spent about $58m on the avenue helping residents and building owners fix up the facades and structures of the buildings along Penn Avenue. Even though Penn Avenue is an arts district and there are several galleries and shops, there are 25 empty lots and blighted buildings. The Green + Screen project is centered on creating architectural screens and landscaping that can fill in the gaps on the avenue and make a more cohesive arts avenue. The first of theses Green + Screens will be at the 4903 lot of Penn Avenue.

Pilot Project Location4903 Penn Avenue is a barren lot owned by PAAI.

Criteria for a Green+Screen Project - Cost effective screens and landscaping - Temporary, movable, and modular to adapt to new spaces - Be contribution to the Avenue - Inexpensive but elegant - Secure to prevent litter, loitering, 4903 Penn Ave and crime

THE PROJECT

Elevation view of 4903 Penn Avenue

About Summit AcademySummit Academy is an award-winning school for delinquent youth. They have a day and night school in Allegheny County and a residential school in Butler County. Many students have court ordered community service hours as well as service required for school. Through the community work they help the students build an identity for positive work and instill pride. This Green + Screen project will give them a chance to work hard on a project and leave a mark they can be proud of. Age of the students ranges from 14-20.

Summit Academy website: www.theacademysystem.com

Summit Academy Fabrication Capabilities: - Screen printing - Carpentry + construction - Welding and metal fabrication and cutting metal sheet - CAD and drafting - Landscaping - Starting a digital media class

About Eco Designers GuildEco Designers Guild (eDG) are a group of volunteer professional designers based in the city of Pittsburgh. Their common goal is to utilize their design backgrounds to give back to the city of Pittsburgh in a green and sustainable way. The eDG designers come from a variety of backgrounds centered around research, interaction, industrial, architecture, and communication design disciplines. Together they work to inform, empower and inspire the community and it’s leaders to further sustainable practices at home, in urban green spaces, and the collective culture.

More about our past projects and events can be found at: www.ecodesignersguild.org

Penn Avenue Arts Initiative (PAAI)Lead by arts director, Matthew Galluzzo, the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative’s (PAAI) core mission is to revitalize the Penn Avenue Corridor, between Negley and Mathilda avenues, by using the arts to enhance public perception of the district, instill pride in the neighborhood, foster inter and intra community ties, and establish an artist’s niche. PAAI has been designed to act as a springboard for attracting and enticing artists to live and work in the neighborhoods along the Penn Avenue Corridor.

More about PAAI at: www.pennavenuearts.org

KEY PLAYERSThe Eco Designers Guild (eDG), Summit Academy, and Penn Avenue Arts Initiative will be working together on the design and building of the first Green + Screen in the Penn Avenue Corridor. eDG will be leading the design of the project and working with the Summit Academy students in the fabrication and landscaping of the pilot project location. PAAI has given the groups 4903 Penn Avenue lot for the first Green + Screen project.

MATERIAL EXPLORATIONeDG recently had a meeting exploring materials Bayer PC- PLA blend of corrugated plastic sheet, Alcoa aluminum foam, and recycled stadium seats. The following pages show how the group experimented the materials.

Recycled Stadium Seats (Plastic Housing) >

< Recycled Stadium Seats (Steel Frame)

< Alcoa Aluminum Foam >

< Bayer Corrugated Plastic

MATERIALSRe purposed Steel + Plastic

Alcoa Aluminum FoamBayer PC-PLA Blend, multi-walled sheet

TEAR DOWNBreak-down of stadium seatingReconfigure and experiment with new formsCombine surfaces

COMPOSECombine elements to create new formsGeometric forms connect to showcase

positive and negative space

CONNECTExperiment with attachment methodsTest material limitationsExplore movement within the screen

DETAILAluminum foam allows for a number of

texture possibilitiesColor and finish exploration

Ideation sketching