Program Chicken coop
Location Erzincan, Turkey
Year 2018
Surface 60sqm
Authors SO? Architecture&Ideas (Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktas)
Collaborators Derya Ertan, Elif Çivici, Selin Çubukçuoğlu, Gülce Yuyar, Zeynep Çabuk
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House of Chickens is a small building that is designed and implemented as a part of Palanga Art and Architecture Farm.
A nature recovery project was initiated in the farm based on its main idea of holistic agriculture. It was the first building completed in the master plan.
The farm is located in Erzincan, in the east of Turkey; a design project run by artist and filmmaker, Kutlug Ataman, to revitalise a neglected district in the east of Turkey, abandoned in the 50s due to the modernisation of the country.
Some of the projects included a Bird Groove of 15000 m2, for the rehabilitation of wild birds and a Planting Campaign for planting 5000 trees each year to regenerate the exhausted soil.
The master plan hosts barns, greenhouses, feedlots, semi-open kitchens, a goose coop etc; all commissioned to renowned architects and designers.
The Chicken Coop responds to the existing requirements with a timber structure that gently stands on the regenerated soil. It went on to be embraced by the chickens.
The brief required a reciprocal relationship with nature, looking for a response to create a designed shelter for animals to protect them from the extreme conditions of the climate.
The main question that the project aims to respond to is "Can design have a transforming effect on the rural environment without dominating nature?".
Being part of an art and architecture farm that aims to revitalise a neglected rural area into an attraction point without losing its value of rural characteristics, this small building aims to use design as a transforming tool.
Using low-impact construction , a significant image and spatial quality was obtained. The design process is driven by this natural fact; every design principle is based on the observation of the chickens, and the previous experiences of local people.
A timber structure was designed since it mimics the natural environment of the chickens, as well as considers the local climate conditions of the area that gets very dry and hot in summer.
Spatial quality is not only something that human beings are also in need of. The reciprocity between human and animal is the main design aspect that shapes the sectional design of the project.
The design features a cross-ventilated and indirectly daylit interior space covered by plywood and magnesium oxide wallboards and timber roosting bars with specific angles for the chickens’ claws.
The sectional design simplifies egg collection and the large canopy helps to create a shade for the chickens. Once the farm is completed, it will be possible to increase the capacity of the modular design by adding new modules.
The shorter section of the project lets people collect eggs without entering the chicken coop while the longitudinal section is formed by the main functions of the shelter: sleeping and incubating.
The current module now hosts 800 chickens.
Program Chicken coop
Location Erzincan, Turkey
Year 2018
Surface 60sqm
Authors SO? Architecture&Ideas (Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktas)
Collaborators Derya Ertan, Elif Çivici, Selin Çubukçuoğlu, Gülce Yuyar, Zeynep Çabuk