to build or not to build?

Increasing global urbanization has resulted in the decline of local biodiversity and fragmented habitats for wild flora and fauna. Indigenous bees in particular are poorly understood and treated as pests though they are responsible for upto 80% of food crop pollination. Since the year 2003, scientists all over the world have observed an astonishing drop in bee population; 90% at its peak. 

As cities move towards the goal of resilience, it is important to reintegrate bees within the fragmented urban matrix to maintain ecological balance. By comparing various biodiversity measures between open land and dense urban sites, through the lens of architectural mediation, a hypothesis was generated to provide and protect habitats of indigenous bee species. Melittological data was analysed to generate interventions at varying scales. Nature based solutions like pollen patches to urban interventions such as pollinator pathways have been discussed, as potential avenues of agreeable habitat. Concerns regarding the phenomenon of nature deficit disorder have been addressed via the formulation of an architectural program that combines the function of a vegetable market with a mellitology institute with the principles of circularity at its core. Furthermore, implications for city scale pollinator conservation are discussed through the device of mobile architecture and policy generation.