HIVE Houston

02/07/2026

HIVE has free florescent fixtures available at 2701 Harrington street.
Drive and pick up , sitting in open yard.🏆🙏🏻

10/25/2025

We have a residency space available. Send a private message to Nestor Topchy for inquiries.

03/31/2025

HIVE presents a model for addressing the future needs of community world wide.

HIVE pilot program is a self directed residency providing a quite retreat space within a modified shipping container for creative thinkers who work between science and art disciplines to produce original cultural content at the crossings of social function and cultural meaning.

HIVE is an artists experimental studio compound co-op/micro village made from shipping containers and recycled building materials situated five miles from downtown Houston on a private acre of land with a pond designated as a national habitat for wildlife.

HIVE program encourages environmental stewardship and incorporating multi genre forms of art , for example combinations of critical theory, poetry, philosophy visual art, bio art ,architecture, movement art, food...which are designed, integrated and initiated by the studio holder with support or collaboration from the Houston community at the1 invitation and discretion of the individual artist.

The HIVE studio holders site has basic facilities, a small climate controlled space available 24-7, bath room ,community kitchen and grounds. There's room for a community of six full time artists on site.

Turtles, amphibians, migratory birds and mammals all call the HIVE habitat home.
The terrain naturally floods after it rains, thus suitable for surefooted individuals to walk about
who are not physically challenged.
There are a few friendly pet dogs and multiple cats on site. There is tram access six blocks away.There is farmers market within walking distance and bike lane along Cavalcade/20th street.
There is HIVE programing within the Egg Chapel (Pysanka workshops ) and Kyudo/archery available...

Founder Nestor Topchy is available for questions/ consultation
re building a HIVE in your state or country.

05/10/2023

08/22/2021

HIVE has ISBU space available 24/7 functioning as both retreat and residency having no exact termination date is the ideal place for the right person.

04/19/2021

The HIVE prototype village/compound has one tiny home/studio style container available in May.
Message Nestor Topchy for more info.

03/01/2021

The coronavirus has been linked to a market selling live wild animals. Help ban the wildlife trade to stop the spread of viruses.

02/23/2021

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries.

01/26/2021

The impact of introduced plants on native biodiversity has emerged as a hot-button issue in ecology. But recent research provides new evidence that the displacement of native plant communities is a key cause of a collapse in insect populations and is affecting birds as well.

12/13/2020

The HIVE MISSION is to design and build an affordable, sustainable, inhabitable work of art as a community.

08/30/2020

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Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 an...