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At home in a world of planks, posts, and horses.
Below: Computer Model used to gain approval and aid construction
 The Orinda Horsemen's Association pastures its animals on hillside EBMUD land, just east of Berkeley's Tilden Park. Manure-soiled straw bedding collected from the stalls is contained and sheltered from rain, to protect the watershed. Periodiacally, the composted waste is trucked outside of the water district to be used as garden fertilizer. The Association needed an inexpensive and low-maintenace structure for this purpose. Its siting would be, by necessity, prominent within the barnyard. In a tongue-in-cheek nod to the work of Bernard Maybeck, a horse head motif is sawn into the main beam ends, and a tri-color palette marries the structure to the surrounding barns, fences, and natural landscape. The structure was built over a couple weekends by volunteer OHA members, who affectionately dubbed it
"The Taj Manure".
 • Small Structures
• Starters
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