The Seed of Want

Bee hut

I wanted somewhere to sit and rest beside working hives, with only a screen between a guest and the bees.

Plan drawing of the bee hut: benches on three sides of a central aisle, hive modules behind them that slide out onto an apron, and the door and landing at the front.
Drawing. Sheet 1 of 37, the plan, at revision 15.
Status
In progress
Made of
lumber, bees, and Python
Outcome
37 drawing sheets at revision 15, every one generated from a single set of dimensions.
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The hut

A 10 × 10 ft pine-framed hut on skids, with benches over seven identical hive modules on Langstroth deep frames. Every module rolls out through its wall onto an apron and opens from inside. A double screen board is the only thing between a guest and the bees.

One set of numbers

I don’t draw the sheets. They’re generated from one set of dimensions and rebuilt whenever a number changes, so every sheet agrees with every other: the plan, the sections, the wall and roof framing, the module fabrication, down to the seating kit. A changed dimension can’t leave one sheet behind.

What that bought

A change costs a rebuild, not a redraw, so the set could grow while the design was still moving: 17 sheets at revision 12 on 20 September 2026, 37 at revision 15 on 2 October. The public repository holds the drawings only; the source stays private.