Architects: Alejandro Soffia Project: Shotgun House Location: Cachagua, Zapallar, Chile Area 427.0 m2 Project Year 2017 Photographs: Juan Durán Sierralta

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Architects make valuable efforts to improve the environment of our various activities. But splendid architecture happens in specific cases, therefore the benefits of good design are quantitatively low for the Society. Although these specific cases may be buildings that house many people or have a high qualitative impact on their environment, they do not really influence in the growth of our built environment.

建筑师们为改善我们各种活动的环境做出了宝贵的努力。但是，优秀的建筑是在特定的情况下发生的，因此良好的设计对社会的好处在数量上是很低的。虽然这些具体的例子可能是很多人居住的建筑物，或者对他们的环境有很高的质量影响，但它们对我们建筑环境的增长并没有真正的影响。

Prefabrication is presented in this context as a tool for the proliferation of the design virtues, integrated into a replicable constructive system. Therefore, it can be affirmed that the prefabricated systems can satisfactorily answer the massive demands of architecture from Society. SHOTGUN HOUSE is a house model designed with SIP panels (Structural insulated panel). These panels are prefabricated building components installed in the Chilean market and available through different suppliers throughout the country. Its technology is simple and arises in the US in the 1930s.

在此背景下，预制作为一种工具，将设计优点集成到一个可复制的建设性系统中。因此，可以肯定的是，预制系统能够很好地满足社会对建筑的巨大需求。散弹枪房是一种由SIP面板(结构绝缘板)设计的房屋模型。这些面板是安装在智利市场上的预制建筑组件，可通过全国各地的不同供应商获得。它的技术很简单，20世纪30年代出现在美国。

In Chile they have been present since 1945, although they disappeared from the market till the 2000s. The panel is currently available around the world. According to its commercial acronym, the panel has the great virtue of combining structure and thermal insulation at the same time. They can also be arranged both horizontally and vertically. It can also be arranged obliquely, so that the possibilities of spatial configuration are varied.

在智利，它们自1945年起就一直存在，尽管它们从市场上消失到2000年代。该小组目前可在世界各地使用。根据其商业缩略语，该小组具有巨大的优点，结合了结构和隔热。它们也可以水平地和垂直地排列。它也可以倾斜地排列，因此空间构型的可能性是多种多样的。

The prefabrication grade is medium, that is, it does not completely solve the needs of a building and the joints must be done in situ. However, it is very quick and easy to assemble.

预制等级是中等的，即不能完全解决建筑物的需要，必须在现场进行连接。然而，它是非常快速和容易组装。

I have developed a series of 9 houses with this system, where I have tried different configurations of ‘bays’, to produce different spatial and / or volumetric results. To take advantage of the prefabricated systems, in this case the different bays respond strictly to the multiplication of the module as it comes from the factory. In this way materials and processes are reduced, resulting in cost and time savings.

我用这个系统开发了9套房子，在这里我尝试了不同的‘海湾’配置，以产生不同的空间和/或体积结果。为了利用预制件系统，在这种情况下，不同的海湾严格响应模块的乘法，因为它来自工厂。这样就减少了材料和工艺，从而节省了成本和时间。

In SHOTGUN HOUSE the use of the panel was tested obliquely to adapt to the classic formal requirements associated with a gabled house. The house, that’s for “massive” family, is defined on the width by a 4.88 m long panel, multiplied 33 times on the same axis for a total of 40 meters long. The base ‘bay’ optimizes the measures of the panels, and it’s been modified according to the different programmatic requirements. SHOTGUN HOUSE is not only an extensive single-family home, but is thought of as a possible model to repeat massively, and thus collaborate in a quantitative and qualitative way to the quality of life of people.

在猎枪房中，面板的使用经过了倾斜测试，以适应与门式房相关的经典形式要求。这座房子，是为“大”家庭定义的，在宽度上定义为一个4.88米长的面板，在同一轴线上乘以33倍，总共40米长。基座‘海湾’优化了面板的测量，并根据不同的程序要求对其进行了修改。猎枪屋不仅是一个广泛的单一家庭住宅，而且被认为是一种大规模重复的可能模式，从而以定量和定性的方式协作，以提高人们的生活质量。