Interesting option, I believe you may have mentioned it before! But I wouldn't try it here because of the weather. We have very windy afternoon almost half the year, and my partner goes crazy with things flapping around. And I would be scared it would get used and fragile too quickly with the snow / sun.
We rarely use the run to lock the chickens for more than an hour or two, maybe once or twice a month. But we would also like to be able to leave overnight maybe three or four times a year, leaving the coop open with an access to the run through the night . I don't want anything less secure to the addition than what we have now, which works though unorthodox : sheep type cloth doubled with chain link fence , with chicken wire on the lower part and something like an apron (we can't dig, so we had to put material over it but this time we'll be pouring cement).
I find it surprising, not so much that she chooses to stay outside, but that she will go there in her own !
Is she being bullied by the adults?
I have a bully problem at roosting time but luckily my youngers have the opposite attitude, they go too bed really early to try to avoid her. It's what Chipie taught them and what she still does!
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some treats to lurk then inside the run. 
) and it seems so light and flimsy that I wonder if green house tarp wouldn't have been better. It was a bit less than 200 euros for ten meter square (105 SQ feet).
- and as I shut them all up, heard squabbling between the adults in another coop; I think they learn to be bullies by being bullied, sadly, and then inflict what they've suffered on any birds beneath them.
