- Title
- The design of a honey processing plant and mead brewery for Menno apiary
- Creator
- Jatoo, Anupam
- Subject
- Farm buildings -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Farm buildings -- Design and construction Ecology in art
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18244
- Identifier
- vital:28609
- Description
- This treatise was born out of an ecological concern for the decline in the bee population witnessed by beekeepers since the late 1990’s. This sudden decline in the bee population has a direct impact on one third of the food we consume which leads to a decrease in food production and an unbalanced ecosystem. The distinct biomes in the Eastern Cape of farming and nature reserves, provides a foundation for an investigation into an architectural intervention of a remedial nature to help the bees breed and restore the natural pollination services. A qualitative research approach has been conducted to focus on the relationship between man and nature and how man-made structures can successfully integrate into the natural process of bee breeding and honey production. This provided a platform to develop an architectural intervention that responded to the ecological issues of the dying bee population. This Paper unpacks the issues which contribute to the bee population in decline and the different types of systems and stages that are required in beekeeping and its by-products. The findings lead to the process of developing an appropriate brief and arriving at a design response which will allow sustainable ways of achieving radical increases in resource efficiency. As a result, the breeding process will provide natural product as well as educate the public and farmers of the region, about the bees. A site specific and factory archetype of architecture will be investigated to facilitate the transformation of site into a bee friendly environment, which will contribute to the rehabilitation of the pollination process in the Eastern Cape.
- Format
- 113 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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