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地址: Pittsburgh, PA

建筑面积: • 17,600 sq. feet (1,630 sq. meters)

竣工日期: January 2002

社区文化: The Pittsburgh Glass Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching, creating, and promoting glass art. The Center's new building includes state-of-the-art studios in hot glass, flameworking, and coldworking. A neighborhood revitalization project in Pittsburgh's historic Friendship area, the Center is housed in a building that has previously been home to a food cooperative, a mattress distributor, and an automobile showroom.

This project was chosen as an AIA Committee on the Environment Green Project for 2005. It was submitted by Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture, LLC, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which executed the project with Bruce Lindsey. Additional project team members are listed on the "Process" screen.

能源利用: A reflective roof system reduces both the building's internal heat loads and its contribution to the urban heat-island effect. The parking lot uses pervious limestone and is landscaped with indigenous plants; it doubles as an event courtyard and reduces heat buildup in summer months. Landscaping and surface treatments were selected to shade the parking lot and the building.

材料选择: The building includes a range of salvaged materials. All new construction materials were evaluated and specified for recycled content and local manufacturing and harvesting. Most of the wood used for the project is certified to have been harvested sustainably. Much of the building was left unfinished, reducing the initial and maintenance costs of the project, limiting the space's offgassing potential, and lending an industrial, creative feel to the building.

室内环境品质: Alterations to the shell of the building were made to increase daylight and views and to maximize opportunities for natural ventilation. As a result, most occupied spaces do not require artificial lighting during daytime hours. Heat from the glassmaking equipment and exhaust air is recovered. Thermal mass inside the building moderates temperature swings.