Urban Beehives : Resurrection of Ghost Buildings

WYSIWYH : What You See Is What You Have

> Nothing beats construction of superstructure when it comes to disaster on urban fabric, especially in Bangkok, a city where daily transportation heavily relies on private vehicles and whose authorities believe that building expressway is the answer to traffic problem. Buildings are torn down to give way to the structure and related machines used during construction process. In most cases, they are destroyed only half way or less, just enough to proceed the rushing construction. Some of the leftover structures are kept and new facades are built to reuse the spaces. Some are abandoned to be `Ghost Buildings`.
> There are two choices to this dilemma; to destroy and rebuild, or to recycle. For the first option, the structure needs to be completely torn down and transports the debris to somewhere else. For the latter one, more optimistic and sustainable, to use the half-left concrete structure and its foundation as a kick-off stage. It is the matter of how we look at things; half empty or half full.
> Urban Beehives is an attempt to tackle this problem, since more and more elevated highways will be built in the future. The proposal provides temporary living and working shelter during the period of unknown, before the structure is determined to be kept or deleted. The design is achievable by architects who orchestrate in-situ materials such as steel scaffoldings, steel reinforcement bars, tarps, wires, plywood, sheet piles, etc., etc. together with engineers who make sure the new added structure is safe. Urban Beehives is a perfect home for the new millenium`s nomads, the residents who live in the unstable condition of this new modern society.