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GREENSBURG DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
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STREET ENTRANCE
ENTRANCE/STUDY LAB
LOBBY
Greensburg Digital Media Center: a place to learn and work. Greensburg is a small city southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The town center is in need of revitalization, which can most practically be achieved through investment in attracting nearby Seton Hill students to the city. The Greensburg Digital Media Center will programmatically and architecturally act as a beacon and draw students and citizens alike to learn or enhance valuable and practical skills in computing and manipulating digital media. The center also encourages seniors of the nearby Penn Towers Retirement Facility to easily navigate a series of circulatory ramps and accessible classrooms that demystify modern technology.
GREENSBURG DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
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B. GARAGE
1. THEATRE/OFFICES
2. LABS/CAFE
3. CLASSROOMS
URBAN DESIGN/BUILD HOUSE
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The Urban Design/Build House, affectionately known as the Shotgun house, is designed as a lowcost, innovative, green, and mass-producible housing unit in Garfield, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We developed a “Shotgun” style house – a home that is long and narrow, measuring 16 feet wide and 80 feet long. The bedrooms are clustered on the western side and create a central core, along which runs a long band of glass and polycarbonate. The eastern side of the home is walled only with polycarbonate, which allows warm, diffused light to flood the long hallway that leads to the southern end. The hallway space opens to a large kitchen and living area, as well as a beautiful city view.
URBAN DESIGN/BUILD HOUSE
SHOTGUN HOUSE: 1280 SQFT
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AIRFLOW ANALYSIS
HOME DATABASE MODULE
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The OwnPlace Home Database Module is a portable, reconfigurable unit designed to inform inhabitants of Garfield, PA about local real estate and home-ownership opportunities. The module offers access to the OwnPlace database website, which posts local home listings. This project is part of wider plan to encourage home-ownership and increase property values in Garfield in the near future. The module is made up of eight primary pieces, one of which houses a computer and touchscreen. After the initial assembly of each piece, all are easily combined due to their specially designed joints. Each piece fits through a standard doorway.