Emerald Art Glass House

AIA Certificate of Merit

The Emerald Art Glass House is a site-sensitive, cantilevered home for the owners of a glass company. This is contextual design. Located on Pittsburgh’s South Side slopes, it floats above the owner’s glass manufacturing facility like a foreman’s shack.

The home’s industrial forms and Cor10 steel siding relates to the factory below. A living roof connects the house visually to the verdant slopes beyond. In a building this public, larger references can be made. Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods are cut off from one another both geographically and culturally. The new horizontally massed house and the US Steel tower, Pittsburgh’s tallest building, are Cor-10 steel peers. Together, they establish a small but meaningful new dialogue between the residential slopes and the commercial city center.

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