nogg, an egg shaped world for chickens

The nogg chicken house is a new and modern piece of sculptural art – yet functional and beautifully well engineered too.

nogg was designed and built by Matthew Hayward and Nadia Turan.

The nogg is made from Cedar wood, a naturally anti-bacterial wood that weathers superbly outdoors and in all weathers giving each nogg a unique and individual appearance after time. The designers, Matthew Hayward and Nadia Turan created the nogg because several friends had ugly unsightly chicken houses which they felt detracted from their gardens and weren’t welcoming, let alone for the chickens who inhabitted them!

Setting out to build a relatively simple egg shaped chicken house turned out to be exactly the opposite due to the complexity of the compound curves of the egg shape itself, ventilation for the chickens, the glass roof, the shaped and cast concrete base, the doors which match the egg shape and sit flush and have a minimal gap for appearance but taking into account the expansion/contraction that the nogg will go through during the course of 12 months heating and cooling, fox proofing the doors – are all just a few examples of the complexity that the designers faced.
Due to Hench’s very own Jonathan Musk being a friend of Matthew’s, Hench was asked to build the nogg website, following the designs submitted by Nadia Turan – and is currently a page of information including useful downloads and a built-in contact form. The site is soon to expand into an online shop.

Following an exhibition in London called TENT, nogg has attracted many admirers and pre-orders from all over the globe! To get your order onto the fast expanding nogg waiting list and for more information about the nogg, visit the site here: www.nogg.co