Bees need all our help. Climate change and pesticides are among the greatest threats to the survival of bees. As tackling these aspects in the immediate future is becoming increasingly difficult, designers and researchers have started to think of creative solutions to protect bees.
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Bees need all our help. THE climate changes and pesticides are among the greatest threats to the survival of bees. As tackling these aspects in the immediate future is becoming increasingly difficult, designers and researchers have started to think of creative solutions to protect bees.
It is real Bee Hotels, otherwise called bee hotels, where these pollinating insects can survive and multiply even when the external environment is hostile due to global warming, excessive winter cold and pollution, especially when it comes to colonies of bees living in the city.
Let's find out what are the most interesting bee hotel projects in the world that have been created in recent years.
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The Grand Beedapest Hotel
The Grand Beedapest Hotel is the bee hotel inspired by Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel'. The idea was born to raise awareness about the decline of the bee population and to inspire people to grow flowers that are friendly to pollinating insects and aromatic herbs suitable for attracting them, such as lavender, sage and geraniums.
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Photo source: Taylors of Harrogate
K-abeilles Hotel for Bees
The hotel for bees K-abeilles Hotel for Bees it is made up of hexagonal cells and resembles a beehive. Some cells are open while others have been enriched with natural materials where bees can find a new safe home. This project was made for the Muttersholtz Archi Festival 2012.
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Font photo: K-Bees
Pop Tarts Works
Pop Tarts Works designers decided to create a hotel for bees to help protect them. The realization started from the creative recycling of cardboard. Thanks to this project, a colony of bees has been created that can pollinate 2000 flowers every day.
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Fonte foto: Pop Tarts Works
Thumb Designs
University student Tom Back, of Thumb Designs, decided to create a beehive hotel for bees with wood and hay. Bees here have the opportunity to survive and reproduce even in extreme climatic conditions and even in urban areas where life is even more difficult for them.
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Photo source: Thumb Designs
Elevator B
Architecture students from the University of Buffalo thought about creating a bee hotel in the form of scratch it. It is equipped with an insulation system that allows the bees to continue living in the city even during the cold of winter.
Photo font: Elevator B
Tomoko Azumi
The creative Tomoko Azumi he was involved in designing a hotel for bees, bats or birds from the creative recycling of paper starting for example from the recovery of old newspapers and waste materials to create a shelter for animals to be saved.
Photo source: Tna Design Studio
MIT Synthetic Apiary
From MIT here is the project of a refuge for bees able to protect them from pesticides, drought and climate change throughout the year. Experts are keeping the project under observation and the first bee has already been born in an artificial environment.
Font photo: MIT
Marta Albè
Fonte foto copertina: K-Bees
