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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Hive - explorations
I began the metaphor brainstorming and qualifications with the hive. The few following documents are related to a few characteristics of bees, such as SWARMING (development of hive through splitting), geometry, and COMMUNITY (the hive as one super individual, possible through relationship enhancement). It shows us lots of potentials of network buildings and development. Actually development is possible if the hive is wealth enough, so we have to find a way of improving hive (great quantity of food (great territory through nexus) and diversity of food (so the bees have something to eat all year long (diversity of activities, uses, vegetations, buildings typologies, ...?).
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Hi Team Kuchi! Great elements on your blog!
ReplyDeleteIf you talk about beehives there is also a strong aspect of efficiancy regarding ressources in the behavior of bees. What can you learn out of that for the environmental and energy aspects? Same regarding the social aspects. You are talking about community. What can we learn regarding communication and exchange of information, issues that will be of high importance for a research park! Last but not least, what about the structural qualites of a beehive? In the examples of 'Bee Modern' you find interesting structures to look at a bit closer... looking forward to see you all tonigth!
For the structural qualities I see two interesting tendencies!
DeleteJon named it convenient shot and large scale.
The first one is the shape of a "organic" hive. This is divided into Layers oder levels you could say, where is space left between to have a fluend exchange between the levels. Secondary is the form of the nest only orientated on the surroundings and on this way build up these beautiful, fluend shape.
The other part is the geometric, perfect symetry I like a lot!!!
thereby and thus the hexagon form, space is perfect used and forces and swinging are ideal given to the next part!
What I ask myself is, what materials and structure we can use, to be flexible with the space and also get a strong system against earthquakes for example?
I think that a hive is one of the best examples of optimization: the hexagon is the perfect compromise between flexibility (you can put them together), use of space (no emptiness between them), and ressources saving (less materials for more volume). Maybe the future hive research park is an exercise of ressources optimization? Now I ask Zhe for help!! :-)
DeleteAnd in a spatial point of view, there is a great efficiency and optimization in the organization of hexagons, but actually some empty space between the different shape, place to access and to fly fluently from one to the other. It seems like variations of intensity in the hive itself, as in the territory!