In this week's comments update, readers are envious of the chickens who get to call a Kengo Kuma-designed chicken coop in Mexico home.
The Casa Wabi Coop was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates to provide eggs for the Casa Wabi Foundation in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
An adaption of a communal housing model, it features gridded walls made from interlocking wooden boards, which create nooks for the chickens to sleep. An open, sandy space for gathering and eating is also formed by these walls.
"In our practice, we usually work on projects to be inhabited by people to be used for a very specific purpose," said KKAA 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!" "A chicken's dream home"
Dezeen commenters can't get enough. The finished result is "a chicken's dream home," according to Rodrigo Galvan-Duque.
JZ agrees: "Wonderful space for whomever (chickens, people, trees) is fortunate enough to enjoy it. We need more of this in our lives."
"Simple, tasteful work," added Bravo. "If architects turn to the countryside, this can be a great contribution and a very commendable initiative as hopefully others will follow ? this can be transformative. Double congratulations to the architects!"
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