Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama by William Price

Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama by William Price is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe in Gine-gine Competition Category.

Baƙin ƘarfeGine-gine· 2022

Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama

by William Price

Client: Bill Price

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe Winner in Gine-gine Category

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The Design

About Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama

Shotgun Over and Under yana cikin unguwar Lower Heights ta Downtown Houston, Texas. Wurin yana iyaka da yankin masana'antu a kudu da makabartar Baƙar fata Amurkawa ta farko a cikin iyakokin birnin Houston. Aikin yana nuni ga Gidajen Shotgun na Houston da ke Garin 'Yan Sako a Ward na Huɗu waɗanda suke dogayen gidaje kunkunen bene ɗaya tare da ɗakuna da aka jera a jere. Shotgun Over and Under bambanci ne daga jigon Gidan Shotgun kuma an ƙirƙira shi a matsayin Gidajen Shotgun biyu da aka jibge a kan juna, ɗaya na sirri ɗaya kuma na jama'a.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe

Zanen Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe, wata karramawa mai daraja da ake bai wa kyawawan zane-zane waɗanda ke cika buƙatun ƙwararru da masana'antu da ake tsammani daga ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire da aka tsara da kyau. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Baƙin Ƙarfe suna nuna babban ƙwarewa, ƙwarewa ta musamman, fahimtar ƙwararru da ikon ƙirƙira na masu ƙirƙirar su. Ana sa ran zanen Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama ya zama ƙirƙira da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna wacce ke da amfani kuma mai sababbin abubuwa. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyukan fannin kuma yana da halayen fasaha masu cancanta da ke da alaƙa da sanin yadda da baiwa. Ana girmama zanen Shotgun Over and Under Gidan Zama saboda cikakkiyar kulawarsa kuma an tsara shi don ba da ingantuwar rayuwa da ke taimakawa wajen mai da duniya wuri mafi kyau.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The project is conceived as two Shotgun houses, stacked atop one another. With this variation, access to natural light, cross ventilation, flora, fauna, and economization of framing materials are maintained. The idea of the Shotgun house is not to replicate the typology but to use its concepts as a way to explore issues around cultural and environmental sustainability. The nature of the thing emerged from the willingness to search for ideas and methods gained from the typology.
Dimensions & Packaging: -Plot is 278 sqm -Landscape Area is 92 sqm -Building Area is 278 sqm -Floors are 1st and 2nd -Height is 7m -Width is 7m -Length is 26m
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Production Technology: Main Structure: Wood Framing, Laminated Veneer Lumber Beams, Three Steel Moment Frames, and a Concrete Structural Slab with Piers - Main Architectural Finishes: Polished Concrete, Washed and Pickled White Oak, Blackened and White Stucco, Blackened Steel and Galvalume Siding
Design Challenge: Shotgun House - Over and Under challenges the limited ways of thinking about residential design today as it relates to environmentally and culturally sustainable solutions. Under the umbrella of cultural and environmental sustainability, the house attempts to reinterpret an existing typology and provoke thought regarding how our relationship with nature and living with one another will evolve as we live longer in cities.
Research: The idea of the Shotgun House - Over and Under is not to replicate the typology but to use its concepts to explore issues around cultural and environmental sustainability. The nature of the project emerges from the willingness to search for and experiment with ideas and methods gained from typology and energized by contemporary ecological and cultural concerns.
Shotgun House - Over and Under attempts to bring together the best of the shotgun house while in essence bypassing its limitations. It is a living space that takes advantage of the attributes of typology radically modified in light of the overriding and timely concerns of our time.
Inspiration: The project is a reinterpretation of Houston’s Shotgun Houses located in the Freedman’s Towns (African American municipalities or communities built by freedmen, former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War). This type of building is a long narrow one-story house with rooms lined back to back. Various theories as to the origin of the name exist. One theory for the name comes from discharging a shotgun through the house and the bullets moving freely from front to back
Project Duration: The project design process into typologies associated with Shotgun Houses started in January 2008 with the application of research occurring in 2016 with construction in 2020 in Houston, Texas - USA.
Operation Flow: The lower volume accommodates private functions and uses the wall to mediate inside and outside. Here, nature is broadcast into the spaces as if televised. It remains blurry and in constant flux as light moves towards you and through it. The upper volume accommodates public functions and is an open floor plan with two micro-climatic decks at either end. Here nature is curated, less wild and sharp. Like a stage set, nature is handled cinematically and asks you to move towards it as light falls on it. This stretching and cinematic effect further emphasize the Shotgun House - Over and Unders relationship to its history.
Team Members: William Price
Image Credits: Image #1 : Kennon Evett, Image #2 : Bill Price, Image #3 : Kennon Evett, Image #4 : Ben Hill, Image #5 : Bill Price