Kengo Kuma builds blackened-wood chicken coop at Casa Wabi artist retreat
Kengo Kuma's firm has designed a coop for chickens living at the Casa Wabi arts foundation Mexico to be like a collective housing project.
The Casa Wabi Coop is a chicken hut that provides eggs for the Casa Wabi Foundation in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKA) received the commission from foundation founder Bosco Sodi. Better acquainted with projects for people, the firm decided to adapt the model of communal housing for the birds.
"In our practice, we usually work on projects to be inhabited by people to be used for a very specific purpose," said KKA partner in charge Javier Villar Ruiz. "For this project, we saw the interesting chance to develop a pavilion kind of project but with a really specific function for its inhabitants… that happens to be chickens!"
"We thought of conceiving this coop in a way that could relate to collective housing projects," he added.
Gridded walls made from interlocking wooden boards create nooks for chickens to sleep. These walls enclose an open, sandy space for gathering and eating.
"While the sheltered space within this pavilion would be used for the general activities of the coop; the structure itself, built-up by interlocking wooden boards together, would create individual cells within for each of its inhabitants for their resting," said Ruiz.
Video is by Edmund Sumner.
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