ZOOS & AQUARIUMS
Alice Davis, managing editor, Attractions Management
THE NEW ZOO
From social environments to immersive story-inspired expeditions, the planet’s best zoos are raising the game. Three leading architects explain how they balance the needs of the animals with those of the visitor for a modern zoo experience
BJARKE INGELS FOUNDER BJARKE INGELS GROUP
Your architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) caused a stir with its concept for the new Givskud Zoo Zootopia in Denmark. How will the design help the zoo perform better? We’ve organised Zootopia so that you start by arriving at something that looks like a giant tilted crater. Visitors are able to walk along the rim of the crater and get amazing views out over the entire landscape. From 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 Asia so you travel by “water bicycle” (like a pedalo). You
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can cycle through the Africa area and then you can take a cable car through America. Essentially the idea is to interface with the animals in completely new ways. There will be a 4km [2.5 mile] hike through all three continents, so there are lots of ways to move around and experience the zoo. Both the human experience and the animal experience are going to get much more exciting, and symbiotic.
Were the animals’ needs the starting point for the design? Zootopia will only have social animals. A lot of people associate zoos with lonesome animals in small cages, going crazy from boredom and claustrophobia. 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
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