PreMoCoMo: the Prefab Modern Coop Movement
While we try to maintain a timeless and essential quality in our designs, we do keep an eye on what’s going on around us. Some of the trends we’ve been noticing are prefab (modular) construction, modern design, and urban farming. Not willing to sit on the sidelines while the hippest things pass us by, we figured we could hop on all three bandwagons at once with our design of MeadowCoop – a prefab modern chicken coop. Our position at the vanguard of the Prefab Modern Coop Movement (PreMoCoMo) has been duly noted, as this project is featured in the latest issue of Residential Architect magazine.
MeadowCoop is home to some very happy chickens who keep the owners of our Meadow Creek House supplied with fresh eggs, entertainment, and fertilizer for their magnificent garden. The coop was prefabricated by Matt Deschler at Portland’s Formed Objects, then trucked to and erected in Seattle on a single day. Matt has built steel furniture and architectural elements for many of our projects, we’d recommend his work to anyone, and we’re glad he was willing to take this one on.
MeadowCoop was a great project to work on. We got to learn about chickens (who knew they want separate places to sleep and lay eggs?) and had fun with the design. We’re always looking for interesting and unusual new projects. Anyone out there need a minimalist beehive with a green roof?
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Tori wants a coop under the cantilever deck now….actually….she just wants baby chicks to hold. Ashton wants the eggs. FANTASTIC!
Maybe Tori would prefer a lovebird. They’re cute and cuddly and stay that way. Not much help when you’re preparing breakfast, though.
Keep us posted & we’ll start designing your aviary.
Anyone out there need a minimalist beehive with a green roof?
Yes, Actually……
We’re intrigued… Care to elaborate?
Pretty hard to get more minimalist than the standard Langstroth. Do you usually work a baroque hive?
Don
We’ve never actually designed a beehive, nor had we designed a coop before this one. It was fun to tackle a new and unusual design challenge to see what we could add aesthetically to what is usually purely utilitarian. Since we’re not beekeepers ourselves, we’ll just have to wait till someone hires us to find out what our modern hive design would turn out to be.