IKEA’s design lab, SPACE10, is sharing free plans to build a custom home for bees.

The Bee Home can be set up nearly anywhere outdoors. SPACE10 and Tanita Klein hope the open-source designs will raise awareness around bees’ impact on the environment and our daily lives.

“I want people to design a dream home for bees that provides the perfect environment for their offspring, while at the same time being incredibly easy to design, assemble, and place,” says Copenhagen-based designer Tanita Klein. In celebration of the United Nations’ World Bee Day—today, May 20—Klein collaborated with SPACE10, IKEA’s research and design lab, to provide free open-source plans that allow anyone to make their very own residence for bees.

The Bee Home is composed of stacked blocks of wood, and the website guides you through the design process. You decide your bee home’s height, number of stories, and how it will interface with your home’s rooftop, garden, or balcony. 

The Bee Home can be set up nearly anywhere outdoors. SPACE10 and Tanita Klein hope the open-source designs will raise awareness around bees’ impact on the environment and our daily lives.
Read another article:Design Trends for Creating a Vacation Vibe at Home

The Bee Home can be set up nearly anywhere outdoors. SPACE10 and Tanita Klein hope the open-source designs will raise awareness around bees’ impact on the environment and our daily lives.

Courtesy of Brendan Austin and SPACE10

The Bee Home website takes you through an easy step-by-step design process. Choose your home’s height, how many stories it will have, and whether it will sit directly on the ground, be hammered into soil with a single steak, or perch on stilts.

The Bee Home website takes you through an easy step-by-step design process. Choose your home’s height, how many stories it will have, and whether it will sit directly on the ground, be hammered into soil with a single steak, or perch on stilts.

Read another article:Hot Trends: 20 Best Farmhouse Style Kitchens in White and Wood

Courtesy of Irena Boersma and SPACE10

After choosing a design and registering your info, an interactive map shows you makers in your area. They’ll manufacture the parts, and then you put them together like Lincoln Logs.

After choosing a design and registering your info, an interactive map shows you makers in your area. They’ll manufacture the parts, and then you put them together like Lincoln Logs.

Courtesy of Irena Boersam and SPACE10

Read another article:Revamped Small Barcelona Apartment Combines Multiple Styles and Finishes

See the full story on Dwell.com: Here’s How to Make Your Own Bee Home for World Bee Day
Related stories:

  • How to Create the Best Home Office for Your Living Situation
  • Here’s How to Put Your Bed on the Floor Without it Looking Sloppy
  • The Best New Outdoor Products for City Living

Similar Posts

mid-century-modern-living-room-ideas-for-functionality-comfort

Fabulous Artist’s Studio Gets a New Avatar with a Polished, Modern Interior

A small duplex turned into a lovely little apartment unit and studio by La Firme, this dashing artist’s home is one where modern minimalism is balanced with space-savvy design and smart storage solutions. The idea was to create a more spacious interior without drastically altering the floor plan and a new mezzanine level introduced into […]

You’re reading Fabulous Artist’s Studio Gets a New Avatar with a Polished, Modern Interior, originally posted on Decoist. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Decoist on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.

burnt-cedar

Burnt Cedar

This is a full-time beach house for a car passionate family of four situated across from Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. Prior to being pulled up the hill to flumes and rails destined for Virginia City, logs were staged here as the mountains around the lake shore were logged during the silver mining years of the 1860s. Set into a neighborhood originally built in the 1950s and bordered by houses to the sides and rear, the house takes a simple box form, half buried into the slope. It faces the lake with full height glazing that encloses a loft-like plan with double height living spaces. The clients requested a space that felt like the landscape and maintained a feeling inside of being outside in the light and shadow play of the sixty to ninety-foot Jeffrey and Ponderosa pines that populate the lake shore.  Perforated wood ceilings and acoustical plaster walls soften the sounds of the concrete and glass pavilion-like house. An underground garage is excavated under the house with level access to the street, a must in this snowy climate for a family with an eclectic car collection.