Need help designing an irregular-shaped covered run

[aart]

I think they are extending their porch, or building a deck, or something like that. Not an actual building.

So your chicken coop (or run?) will be right next to their deck?
I hope they like chickens!
Man, I'm glad I live right next to no-one.

 

[K0k0shka]

So your chicken coop (or run?) will be right next to their deck?
I hope they like chickens!
Man, I'm glad I live right next to no-one.

The coop itself is way out in the corner, the deck won’t be next to it. It will be next to part of the run, and the inspector said they don’t regulate this kind of structure, so I can put it wherever I want.

 

[rosemarythyme]

So your chicken coop (or run?) will be right next to their deck?
I hope they like chickens!
Man, I'm glad I live right next to no-one.

Yeah I can't imagine my deck being 2' from someone's coop...

I mean one of my neighbors built a deck about 100' away and my husband and I are both eyeballing it reaaaaallly hard. Did they really need a deck "that close"?

 

[K0k0shka]

Yeah I can't imagine my deck being 2' from someone's coop...

I mean one of my neighbors built a deck about 100' away and my husband and I are both eyeballing it reaaaaallly hard. Did they really need a deck "that close"?

Yards are tiny here, people are right up in each other’s business and generally used to it. This person’s entire plot is probably about 50x50. No room for setbacks on anybody’s side.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Yards are tiny here, people are right up in each other’s business and generally used to it. This person’s entire plot is probably about 50x50. No room for setbacks on anybody’s side.

Oh I know how it goes, I used to live in Southern CA. I was thrilled to live in a detached condo with a "back yard" that was a 20x20 patch of sunless dirt wedged between other houses.

 

[K0k0shka]

Oh I know how it goes, I used to live in Southern CA. I was thrilled to live in a detached condo with a "back yard" that was a 20x20 patch of sunless dirt wedged between other houses.

I’ve been through it all - apartment building in a big city, farm with all the animals you could think of, and now the suburbs with a house and a back yard. I like this arrangement the best and am very tolerant of my neighbors, from barking dogs to lawn mowers and parties... I hope they’re okay with my 3 chickens as well!

 

[K0k0shka]

Also, we don’t know just how close they’ll be building. The setback requirement is 8 feet, but that doesn’t mean they’ll go all the way out to the fence. Maybe they’ll only eat one foot into it, or two... I know that’s still not much to y’all with the vast expanses of land, but every foot counts over here Regardless, I was planning on growing an evergreen vine on the back wall of the run as a privacy screen. Potentially getting a fake one until the real one establishes itself and covers the whole area. That way the neighbors will be looking at nice greenery and not at chicken butts! They may not even notice the chickens are there. I’ve heard that from other folks around here. Neighbors didn’t realize there were chickens next door until the owner brought them eggs!

 

[K0k0shka]

Here are the bare bones of my scale model. This has really helped me visualize the irregular shape section and I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the difference in pitch between the roofs of the two regular shapes is so small that it's barely noticeable at all! I think I'll be able to lay down the roofing panels as if the whole thing had one single slope. They have some give, so I can warp them a little bit if they need it, to be flush with the rafters. After seeing it, I have fresh hope that this is actually going to work.

(Disclaimer: this is very rough; the wooden pieces aren't proportionate to each other in thickness because that's the craft wood I had on hand; it's still missing a lot of pieces - most of the rafters, the knee braces, one post on the east wall etc. And I need to trim the ends of the rafters, now that I decided to get rid of the overhangs. But it's to scale - 1:12 - and good enough as a proof of concept).

 

[aart]

Cool!
Love me some prototyping!
What ind of roofing are you going to use, can you 'scale' that too?
What's the (real)distance between those 2 rafters?

 

[K0k0shka]

Cool!
Love me some prototyping!
What ind of roofing are you going to use, can you 'scale' that too?
What's the (real)distance between those 2 rafters?

These are the panels I'll be using:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Suntuf-26-in-x-6-ft-Polycarbonate-Roof-Panel-in-Clear-155030/206166246
Next stage of the prototype (after finishing the wooden parts) is to scale and add the roofing panels and the fencing panels.

The scale is 1:12 so each square on the grid here represents 1 foot by 1 foot. The two big rafters are 12 feet apart (in real distance). I'll add more rafters to the model and aim to have them 2 (real) feet apart. A couple of them are going to be more like 2.5 feet apart though, because the total length is 21 feet. Everything works out perfectly with the sizes of the fencing panels though, including the diagonal wall which is exactly 2 panels wide (wohoo!!) so the final dimensions are being dictated by the fencing panel sizes.