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1. We are a group of professional designers based
in the city of Pittsburgh, who are working
together to inform, empower and inspire the
community and its leaders to further sustainable
practices at home, in urban and green spaces,
and the collective culture.

2. Green + Screen Design
Project 1.0
4903 Penn Ave

3. About Penn Ave
Benefits
‣ Arts Galleries + Music Venues
‣ Restaurants + Bars
‣ Historic Neighborhood
‣ Edgy Up-and-Coming Community
‣ Mix of Young Families + Professionals
Obstacles
‣ Urban Blight
‣ Crime
‣ Vacant + Run-down Lots
‣ Lack of Care for Community But WE Can Help...

4. Why do this?
The Green + Screen
project is centered on
creating architectural
screens and landscaping
that can fill in the gaps or
missing teeth along the
avenue; creating a more
cohesive and vibrant
arts corridor!

5. The Project
Criteria for a G+S Project
‣ Inexpensive but elegant screens and
landscaping
‣ Sustainable / Green materials
‣ Temporary, movable, and modular to
adapt to new spaces
‣ Reinforce Penn Avenue as an arts
district through innovative, quality
designs
‣ Secure to prevent littering, loitering,
4903 Penn Ave and crime
Pilot Project Location:
4903 Penn Avenue

6. Key Players
Summit Academy eDG
Most Wanted Fine Art Penn Ave Arts Initiative

7. Donated Materials

8. Experimentation

9. eDG Sketches

10. Student Sketches

11. Planning

12. Fabrication

13. Final Design

14. Building In Progress!
Checklist
‣ PAAI Funding: $2,000
‣ Corporate Sponsors: Materials
‣ Research Solutions
‣ Design With Existing Resources
‣ Engineer Solution
‣ Labor to Clear & Prepare Lot
‣ Structural Engineering Check
‣ Equipment Rental
‣ Fabrication of Elements
‣ Winter...Frozen...
‣ Spring! Begin Construction
‣ [CURRENT STEP] Build & Assembly
‣ Launch Party!

15. Thanks to Our Sponsors

16. Green + Screen Design
Project 2.0
Site 1, Site 2, Site 3

17. About The Locations
Green Space
K2 Lot
Screen
Vacant Lot
Green Space
Spak Brother’s

18. Locations Green Space
Spak Brother’s Parking Lot
Green + Screen Green Space
Vacant Lot Facade K2 Parking Lot

19. Signup Tonight!
OR
ecodesignersguild@gmail.com

20. The Team