Architecture & Technology

Architechnology is a Hive brand focused on providing low-cost, highly-dynamic architecture which integrates the most up-to-date technologies, especially when it comes to automation and fluid spaces.

Purpose

To enable rapid assembly and commissioning of spaces as required to meet current demand.

To create lively communities by regrouping and optimizing services and spaces.

Principles

Buildings are modular and integrate different levels of technology.

Buildings are dynamic, meaning spaces are not fixed and can be modified in a modular or fluid manner, responding to immediate needs.

Service modules are integrated and highly automated.

Components

  1. PolyPod™ system for rapid goods movement & delivery

  2. Modular architecture based on standardized Pattern Buildings™ system

  3. Dynamic Shelves™ which can move and serve their content automatically

  4. Living Ceiling™ transportation and technical layer for fully-automated parcel movement and utilities connections

  5. Dynamic Walls™ for automated, live space creation and adaptation

  6. Dynamic Utilities™ self-installing HVAC and plumbing connections

  7. Modular foundations

Automated Delivery

PolyPod™

Rapid goods movement & delivery.

Thanks to PolyPod™ (www.polypod.xyz), goods of various sizes can be autonomously transported & quickly delivered withing a three-dimensional framework.

Modular Architecture

Pattern Buildings™

Open-source timber construction.

An open-source designed-for-manufacture modular building system, Pattern Buildings™ (www.patternbuildings.com) allows for the quick construction of durable, high-quality architectural spaces based on a 3m / 6m / 9m grid.

Autonomous Service Modules

Dynamic Shelves™

Automated microshops.

Whether a microshop, a post office, or a library, thanks to Dynamic Shelves™, it is possible to deliver and retrieve parcels and products in the most efficient manner.

Autonomous Technical Layer

Living Ceiling™

Automatic transportation and technical layer.

Living Ceiling™ integrates the PolyPod™ system together with self-deploying HVAC and plumbing lines for fully-automated parcel movement and utilities connections.

Variable Rooms

Dynamic Walls™

Automatic room subdivision system.

Transform spaces on-the-go by means of self-deploying walls: just configure your floor plan online and let the building recreate the floor plan in real life within minutes.

Variable Utilities

Dynamic Utilities™

Utilities where you need them, when you need them.

Electricity, ventilation, plumbing: available anywhere in the building at the tap of a finger. A breakthrough technology to make architecture fully adaptive.

Solid Base

Universal Foundations

An efficient base for your building.

Lay the base for your building anywhere with a range of basic, cost-efficient predesigned foundations.