How is the visitor experience incorporated into the architecture? With the bears, your cable car might come close but it won’t bring you within range. Instead, you’ll see rolling hills growing over the areas where the lions retreat when the winter gets cold in Denmark combinations of level changes and trenches with water where the depth prevents certain animals from crossing. This means no Chinese pagodas or African huts. What we’ve tried to do is to eliminate all traces of human architecture, so there are no buildings. It was also a question of trying to find ways of creating a successful cohabitation between humans and different species of animals. The zoo’s aim was really to try to be a place where visitors don’t notice the barriers between them and the animals, turning the traditional zoo inside-out. In this case, the brief created a natural starting point for our design the continuous and diverse landscape seamlessly serves animal and human needs.ĭid you aim to build a futuristic zoo? What architectural qualities make it a zoo of the future? However, when you have a social zoo you can have a big group of animals together in a habitat that resembles the way they’d live in the wild. A lot of people associate zoos with lonesome animals in small cages, going crazy from boredom and claustrophobia.
Were the animals’ needs the starting point for the design? There will be a 4km hike through all three continents, so there are lots of ways to move around and experience the zoo.īoth the human experience and the animal experience are going to get much more exciting, and symbiotic. You can cycle through the Africa area and then you can take a cable car through America.Įssentially the idea is to interface with the animals in completely new ways. We’ve organised Asia so you travel by “water bicycle” (like a pedalo). Visitors are able to walk along the rim of the crater and get amazing views out over the entire landscape.įrom this crater there’ll be three giant gates that you can move through that will bring you into one of three zones: America, Asia or Africa. We’ve organised Zootopia so that you start by arriving at something that looks like a giant tilted crater.
How will the design help the zoo perform better? Your architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) caused a stir with its concept for the new Givskud Zoo Zootopia in Denmark. Three leading architects explain how they balance the needs of theĪnimals with those of the visitor for a modern zoo experience Jobs News Features Video Products Company profiles Profiles Magazine Handbook Advertiseįrom social environments to immersive story-inspired expeditions, the planet’s best zoos are raising the game.
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