los angeles CALIFORNIA
Sci-ARC
Critic: M. Casey REHM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Christina GRIGGS and Jonathan WARNER: Hiveline is a proposal for an urban apiary, or bee farm, in downtown Los Angeles. This project is interested in the value of a sample towards the production of form and a play of varying degrees of resolution in the service of articulation.
- Christina GRIGG and Jonathan WARNER, “Hiveline.”, Taxonomy
- Christina GRIGG and Jonathan WARNER, “Hiveline.”, Roof Plan
- Christina GRIGG and Jonathan WARNER, “Hiveline.”, Perspective
- Christina GRIGG and Jonathan WARNER, “Hiveline.”, Perspective
Starting from 3 flower typologies and the site itself, we wanted to explore how these inputs could in some places be preserved and in others distorted.
Subverting the expectation that a project derived from flowers would be leafy and open, by sampling the flowers primarily for their form and color we created something quite solid. From here we found opportunities to manipulate the various components to create spaces for the program and circulation.
The first component is the most porous of our original flowers. We further opened this component to create a framework for circulation. The second typology is characterized by its massiveness, which we further intensified to use as a base to grow flowers and contain water. And the last we used as a generator to carve out spaces for the hives themselves.
At points, our project is broken up by some flowers in their original form: allowing space to fully run the gamut of resolution. This interjection creates moments of transition which tie together the overall natural quality of additional planter elements. All of these details taken together prevent the project from feeling overwhelmingly monolithic, as the various forms of abstraction work to create graphic patchwork over the project. The result is a new sort of wilderness, generated through a combination of organic and inorganic inputs. A hyper-articulated hive for the city of Los Angeles.
