The design concept of Urban Beehive

The design concept of Urban Beehive is centered around several core principles:

1. Ecological Design: This is a design approach that integrates ecological processes to minimize environmental impact. Ecological design is considered as “designing for biodiversity,” aiming to construct healthy ecosystems in urban and peripheral areas through rational planning and design, achieving a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
2. Biophilic Design: This design philosophy emphasizes linking people’s daily lives with biodiversity by incorporating plant and animal elements into the design to improve environmental and health issues. The framework of biophilic design includes design strategies related to flora and fauna, such as integrating plants into buildings and creating animal-friendly habitats.
3. Wildlife Inclusive Urban Design: This design emphasizes balancing the needs of wildlife and humans, aiming to create new animal habitats in urban built-up areas. Key features include interdisciplinary team implementation (especially ecologists), considering the entire life cycle of target species, continuous monitoring after implementation, and adopting participatory design methods.
4. Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design: This design integrates ecological knowledge into urban planning, design, and development, aiming to maintain and introduce habitats, promote dispersion, facilitate natural ecological processes, and enhance the potential for positive interaction between humans and nature.
5. Habitat Design: One of the important tasks of design intervention in urban biodiversity is to design nests and dwellings for key wild animals to meet their survival and breeding needs. For example, the “Bee Brick” design targets solitary bees by installing bricks with multiple holes of different diameters on the surfaces of buildings to attract them as nests.
6. Community Participation: Emphasizing the importance of pollinating insects and their role in the ecosystem through public experience and education. For example, the “Urban Beehive” project encourages the public to understand the honey production process and learn about pollination and beekeeping through demonstrative beehives set up in urban parks.

These design concepts collectively form the core of Urban Beehive, aiming to promote urban biodiversity, enhance urban quality of life, and achieve a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature through design.