ARC 659- Studio Louisville - 2019 (Modular Shotgun House)

Modular Shotgun House

Professor: David Biagi

Project Overview:

After hurricane Katrina hit the shores of Louisiana, Louisville Kentucky now has the hosts the greatest number of shotgun homes in America. The neighborhood of Portland, located in the west of Louisville, is where the shotgun architype lives most vividly.  The issue in the area is the growing tally of vacant lots and abandoned or dilapidated homes in the area. The Modular Shotgun House is in response to this issue. The intent of this home was to create a highly functional and well-designed home for an affordable cost. The home is to be able to provide the homeowner with freedom of design of their home while the architecture ties the home into its surrounding community.

SIPS:

Designed with budgetary needs in mind, this Modular Shotgun Home franchise allows for a no boundary design with am emphasis on sustainability. This franchise using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS-Fig. 1) as its exterior walls and roof to allow for the interior of these homes to be a vanilla box in which the homeowner now has free reign on the design of the interior of their home. These panels are pre-fabricated in a warehouse and then shipped to the job site. This pre-fabrication helps with cost by speeding up the construction time. This pre-fabrication also allows for a better quality construction of the home.

Fig. 1

Sustainability:

Using a pre-fabrication system creates an option for a flexible exterior, which includes the roof (fig.3). This flexibility, specifically the roof, gives the home the opportunity to play with the natural sun exposure inside the home no matter the orientation of the home. Playing with the solar exposure on a home greatly impacts the sustainability of the home (Fig.2).

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

Drawings

Final Board and Model

Final Board:

Location: South Central Regional Library