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BIEN-ZENKER BIENENHAUS

BIEN-ZENKER BIENENHAUS

Plus X Award 2018

Achieved for

  • Innovation
  • High Quality
  • Design
  • Functionality
  • Ecology

From the jury's assessment

The company’s own requirements for sustainability led to the development of the Bien-Zenker bee house in a prefabricated construction. Now, up two one million bees can live in the hexagonal house, which resembles a honeycomb.

  • custom-fit manufacturing for installation on-site
  • natural, inviting language of form
  • highest ease of use thanks to the cooperation of developers, planners and professional beekeepers
  • ideal access for the bees by implementing results from research
  • integration of experience (place and direction of the approach path)
  • solutions in the beehive based on biological findings, creating ideal working conditions for the bees