We just mentioned that everyone is chicken crazy. Chickens aren’t cuddly. They won’t sit in your lap (or at least I wouldn’t try). But, they’re reliable, produce eggs for food and are actually quite good pets.
Brooklynite architects Mitchell Snyder and Shelley Martin recently moved to Portland and while acclimating to their new surroundings and trying to launch a new architecture firm, Mitchell created his very first project in Portland: a hen house. Allowed three hens by Portland authorities, Mitchell designed a modernist 4′ cube with a 4′ x 15′ run with reclaimed cedar siding, windows for ventilation and a green roof.
Read the story and see more photos on Dwell.
Photos by John Clark.
Eastvold Furniture on 10.23.2010 at 16:12 PM
There has been a lot of chicken coop exposure lately, many great designs out there, but this is my favorite. Nice job Mitch and Shelly!
Roger on 10.25.2010 at 17:20 PM
By far the best designer chicken coup yet. Bravo.
Marcela on 03.24.2012 at 16:22 PM
Ah, this lost humankind.
Erin on 03.24.2012 at 16:23 PM
Wow! I am loving the green roof.
marcie on 03.24.2012 at 16:42 PM
You’re not kidding, that is one amazing hen house! I think I’d like to reincarnate as one of their hens. I know a fee makers who’d love to make you one http://custm.dm/1
Caleb Pedersen on 03.24.2012 at 20:11 PM
I grew up raising chickens. We built our own coop and house for the birds. The truth is that this design looks great, but it isn’t maintainable. Chickens poop on everything and you have to be able to get in there and muck the entire think out. Doesnt look like the roof comes off so good luck with that. Avoid straw too- even though it looks nice it will get matted down and is very difficult to remove, especially in this wet pacific northwest weather. All that said, the nest boxes look cool. I hope they’re designed so that the eggs roll down, otherwise the chickens will begin eating the eggs and it makes a huge mess