newitalianblood

I have always seen in the community life of bees an urban instruction; something that is very close to the motto “unity is strength”. A Bienenhaus is also this: a macrostructure can accommodate more living cells. The teaching must have come from the comb itself in those early beekeepers who decided to protect their hives in these small buildings. Personally I see in these rural buildings of architectural and urban references: first of all Le Corbusier with his Unitè d’Abitation and then again with the Arturo Soria’s Ciudad Lineal. This small architecture from the minimum budget and self-built, a “Kunstwollen” led the composition of facades in their duotone. The design has been extended to small hives, designed to fit the alpine climate and then painted with bright colors to help the orientation of bees. Data: 6.5 square meters, 15 cubic meters volume built, 700 euro of materials, 16 hives inhabited by 120,000 bees.