The clucking of live chickens generated some excitement at this weekend's Dwell on Design and I think it's safe to say that urban homesteading is on its way up. We reported about RAAD Architects' chicken coop during this year's ICFF in New York and we're excited to see a Los Angeles counterpart presented at Dwell on Design. But this time, the modernist coop was more of a moveable feast.
Los Angeles-based design duo 100xBTR made its first foray into designing for the urban homesteader with a movable chicken coop on wheels and a Japanese-style beehive. Although the outfit typically designs lighting and furniture, one half of the duo, Will Rollins, actually keeps bees and chickens and addressed some of his needs through the design.
Live chickens caught the attention of many Dwell on Design visitors—especially those under four feet tall. Adults got a kick out of the coop's "arial view": a distinctive roof with hexagonal cutouts protects the chickens and allows air circulation in the chicken run.
The coop is made out of MDO plywood. With a traditional "home" silhouette, the coop was designed to move—with handles on one end and a pair of wheels on the other. A lamp fixed above the roof answered the needs of its resident poultry. It fits two chickens comfortably.
A tall structure that could almost be mistaken for a sculptural object was showing next to the coop. It was a Japanese-style beehive built to closely mimic a bee's natural honeymaking system: vertically instead of horizontally. Rollins used a CNC router to carve out a hexagonal relief with a bee over it, adding a telltale marker and an artistic touch to the piece.
100xBTR is a Los Angeles-based furniture manufacturing shop run by partners Will Rollins and Brendan Sowersby. Explaining the name, Rollins simply states, "Since 1997, we've been trying to be a hundred times better."
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Although, the cutouts are pentagons, not hexagons :)