**Promotion:** Spanish brand Cupa Pizarras' Cupaclad slate-based cladding system features in four different patterns across the facade of this home, designed by architects EMAKI to harmonise with the natural surroundings of the US Pocono Mountains. The Mountain Home in Hawley, Pennsylvania, is located within a forest and serves as a year-round residence for the client, who is a friend of EMAKI founders Adham Kasem and Evgeni McSimoff. The architects sought a rainscreen cladding system for the project that would withstand the sometimes harsh mountain climate, and chose Cupaclad because of its natural composition – it is 100 per cent slate – beauty and sustainable credentials. The Mountain Home in Hawley is located in the Pocono Mountains The slate was also chosen to blend well into the wild setting at the north-eastern tip of Lake Wallenpaupack with its mix of rocky outcroppings, forest and water.…