Bee Happy
Product design
The gradual disappearance of bees is creating a huge environmental imbalance.
Bee Happy is an apicentric hive. Its role is to preserve bees, while allowing observation of the hive’s interior.
Bee Happy can accommodate a colony. The hive’s oval shape evokes the bee’s body.
Inspired by the Sun Hive – conceived and designed by German sculptor Guenther Mancke – the hive allows the colony to develop in full view.
It is aimed at both private individuals and professionals, who are keen to understand bees and offer them a habitat.
The project was selected in 2022 by the Clos Folard park in Morières-lès-Avignon as part of the creation of educational workshops.
Lectures with a beekeeper, honey harvesting and observation sessions will be organized.
2020
Model (50×20 cm) in polystyrene, metal lid, wooden frames.
The model consists of wooden frames in the shape of half-spheres, a wooden hive body with a Plexiglas window, a flight board, a metal inlet reducer and a metal hermetic cover.
Its realization allows me to highlight several improvements:
- the overall size of the hive
- the installation of an additional honey collection
- the installation of a waste evacuator at the bottom of the hive
- the regulated integration of the hive into the park.
The model was made in a cabinetmaker’s workshop in the Gard region of France.
Model (H 52 cm, diam. 24 cm), poplar plywood, veneer, Plexiglas glass, curved frames.
