Live Like a Bee - Honeycomb Housing Developments
Laying out homes in a honeycomb pattern creates livable, safe communities.
We have to face the fact that current urban and suburban designs create wasteful environments that do not address social problems, such as car usage, crime, healthy living and the family unit. Politicians, and organizations can talk and urge us to do things, but unless we begin to provide the kinds of environments people need to accomplish this, it’ll never get done.
Well, a visionary architect from Malaysia, by the name of Mazlin Ghazali, developed an urban development pattern that is shaped like the honeycomb. It’s called “tessellation” and it is based on an ancient Islamic artform.
His way of laying out housing units creates highly desirable cul-de-sac neighborhoods that are inherently safe, functional, comfortable, and support family and community values. It can be applied anywhere in the world, with any kind of architectural look. However, because cul-de-sac developments utilize only attached housing types, Ghazali developed duplex, triplex, quadruplex and sextuplex building units, that can be used to accomplish the required pattern.
There are many sustainable community designs out there, but none of them address the fundamental requirements of socially conscious living, the way Ghazali’s does.