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shotgun house

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shotgun house
Built primarily in the rural southern regions of the United States from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, a one- or one-and-a-half-story house (commonly supported on short piers), one room wide and several rooms deep, with all rooms and their doors in a straight line perpendicular to the street; a narrow gable front with a porch, and often with a similar porch at the rear.


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Now if you could only get the shotgun house rented.
Digital manufacturing is represented by two completely different approaches, both using plywood: harry Sass and his team at MIT have built a weird replica of a New Orleans shotgun house while Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier have gone for the freeform, rough-and-ready option with their Burst House.
Amplifying local architectural vernacular, Potrc placed her vividly colored "sculptural" case study of a New Orleans shotgun house front and center.
 
 
 
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