Norway based Eriksen Skajaa Architects’ proposal about Urban Beehives was recently acknolwegded in the Oslo Triennale. The project explores how biodiversity can act as a catalyst for urban development and generate ideas to respond to social diversity. The study examines the environment of the Aker River as an infrastructure for urban food production as well as an apiary at the Vaterland Park. The proposal intends to illustrates how biodiversity, small-scale urban gardening and food production can contribute to a new layer of urban development centered on the riverbanks.
More images and more about the proposal after the break.
Situated close to the Aker River, the Vaterland Park will be transformed into an apiary that “combines the ideas of biodiversity and self-sufficiency with ideas of social change and a participatory democratic urban space.” A series of beehive harvest units will be placed throughout this park to demonstrate the importance of maintaining biotopes in and around our cities.
