Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho by William Price is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Rino in Hoahoa Waihanga, Whare me te Hanganga Competition Category.
RinoWaihanga· 2022
Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho
Client: Bill Price
A' Design Award Rino Winner in Waihanga Category
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About Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho
Kei te rohe o Lower Heights i Downtown Houston, Texas te Shotgun Over and Under. Kei te tonga o te papaone he rohe ahumahi, ā, kei reira hoki te urupā tuatahi mō te hunga Āwherika-Āmērika i roto i ngā rohe tāone o Houston. E whai tikanga ana te kaupapa i ngā Whare Shotgun o Houston kei Freedman's Town i te Fourth Ward, he whare roa, whāiti, kotahi roro me ngā rūma kua whakatakotoria pito-ki-pito. Ko te Shotgun Over and Under he tākinga kē i te kaupapa o te Whare Shotgun, ā, i whakamaheretia hei rua Whare Shotgun kua tauruatia tētahi ki runga i tētahi, kotahi mō te taha tūmataiti, kotahi mō te taha tūmatanui.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Rino
Ko Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a Shotgun Over and Under Whare Noho mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.
Behind the Design
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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
- Tags
- shotgun house, shotgun house over and under, bill price brown endowed chair, pvamu, bill price inc
- 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
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