CHICKEN HOUSE

Small roosting boxes hang at different heights inside Chicken House, linked by light stairs. Below them, chickens can move across shaded ground, while shallow circular pools give ducks access to water. Tropical Space designed the enclosure to provide space for the birds’ daily activities within a secure boundary.

The owners, an elderly couple moving from the city to the countryside, also wanted their grandchildren to visit and play. Completed in 2017 in My Hanh, the structure is large enough for children to enter: a 2-by-10-metre steel frame, 2 metres high, wrapped in mesh. Cement board forms its solid parts.

Vegetable beds surround the coop, and luffa vines are trained over the roof for shade. Water from washing the enclosure drains toward the beds on either side. Nearby trees and the suspended boxes provide additional shade at ground level.

Project Information

Design studio: Tropical Space
Area: 20 m²
Time: 2017
Type: Pavilion
Primary materials: Steel

The mesh enclosure stretched along a brick garden wall — Credit: Quang Trần

Chickens beneath hanging boxes and a light stair — Credit: Quang Trần

Rooster inside the enclosure with boxes overhead — Credit: Quang Trần

Chicks drinking at a small round pool — Credit: Quang Trần

Looking down the length of the enclosure — Credit: Quang Trần

Mesh walls and stacked boxes in daylight — Credit: Quang Trần

A child sitting on a box inside the coop — Credit: Quang Trần

Chickens among plants inside the mesh — Credit: Quang Trần

Hanging boxes at several levels with a child above — Credit: Quang Trần

A child climbing between the boxes — Credit: Quang Trần

Children playing on the boxes and stairs — Credit: Quang Trần

A child perched on a hanging box — Credit: Quang Trần

A child inside the enclosure near a banana plant — Credit: Quang Trần

The enclosure under a large tree — Credit: Quang Trần

Steel frame and mesh along the garden wall — Credit: Quang Trần

Inside the coop with cement board boxes — Credit: Quang Trần

Round pool sunk into the floor beneath the boxes — Credit: Quang Trần

Mesh wall, planting and the round pool — Credit: Quang Trần

Two chickens on the concrete floor — Credit: Quang Trần

Ducks in the pool by the brick wall — Credit: Quang Trần

The full length of the coop against the wall — Credit: Quang Trần

The mesh enclosure at dusk — Credit: Quang Trần

The coop lit at dusk with a banana plant — Credit: Quang Trần

Interior of the coop at night — Credit: Quang Trần

Evening view through the mesh — Credit: Quang Trần

CHICKEN HOUSE

Project Information

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