With its gentle curves, the Ozeanium responds to the urban fabric and reflects its interior space, where spiral ramps welcome visitors. Except for the circulation cores that anchor the building to the site, the ground floor is a completely open-plan
The refurbishment of original structure, designed by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon in 1962, provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys and includes a new education and community center...
The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present
The heart of the new Parque de Vallmora near Masnou (Barcelona) is a large equipped promenade that also serves as a grand balcony or mirador over the city. One of the most unique facilities built in the park is an ‘insect hotel’: a place that provide
The six ravens kept since time immemorial at the Tower of London are bound to British royalty to such an extent that legend has it that if these birds “are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.” Utmost care has therefore gone int
The new space for lemurs – the smallest existing primates, originally from the African island of Madagascar – was to encourage controlled interaction between these animals and visitors to Melbourne Zoo. With this in mind, the project relied on two im
Endemic to the tropical jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, orangutans are animals with high cognitive abilities and the strength and skill to manipulate, activate, operate, and deconstruct mechanisms. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans do not li
The zoo located in the historical Parc de Vincennes was one of the first in the world to do away with cages and present animals in open habitats. Having closed for some years, it has reopened, completely renovated and renamed Paris Zoological Park.
The Zootopia project is presented as an ecosystem to be walked, sailed, or flown through, and that incorporates architecture as something for animals from all over the world to inhabit in three zones which can be entered through a crater...
Designed to shelter the new Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park that is part of Zoo Zurich, this wooden structure is colossal. It is a dome of anisotropic geometry that mimics its environment, a forest recreated within the facility with the purpose of obtain
Visitors arriving at Copenhagen airport will soon be able to discern a sea-facing volume of unmistakable organic forms. It is the so-called Blue Planet, the city’s new aquarium. With capacity to hold seven million liters of water, the building contai
Gondwanaland, the name of the large structure that has recently extended the inner-city Leipzig Zoo, makes reference to the original continent that emerged from Pangaea and configured South America, Africa and South Asia, geographic regions whose liv
With a strong social component and the prized resource that water is in a leading role, a modest project for landscape regeneration also seeks to foster a sense of community.
El Palmeral del Parc de la Ciutadella es un pequeño jardín de apenas 1.500 metros cuadrados con una amplia colección de palmeras y una frondosa vegetación tropical. En el conjunto de las instalaciones del zoológico, el Palmeral se viene utilizando de
En el Zoológico de Frankfurt se alza una nueva instalación llamada Selva Borgori (neologismo formado con la ‘B’ de bonobo, ‘or’ de orangután y ‘gori’ de gorila), un hábitat artificial para alojar cuatro especies de homínidos o grandes simios, nuestro
El Grosser Garten es un jardín barroco y antiguo sitio de caza en el centro de la ciudad alemana de Dresde. Además de un palacete, en él se encuentran el jardín botánico y el zoológico de la ciudad. Esa situación de contigüidad ofrecía al zoo una oca
El nuevo recinto para los elefantes se sitúa al norte del Zoo de Copenhague, con vistas hacia los jardines reales de Frederiksberg. Sustituye a la antigua instalación, de la que hereda el nombre: la Casa de los Elefantes. Consta de dos partes, una al
In the project for the New York Aquarium, located on Coney Island, the envelope evokes fish scales thanks to a luminous and interactive network configured with thousands of solar responsive LED lights, whose color changes depending on the time of the
Con el deseo de contribuir a impulsar el desarrollo económico del Alentejo, reforzando su mercado de ocio y turismo, el ayuntamiento de Mora, una pequeña localidad situada al norte de la región, convocó un concurso para diseñar un acuario cuyo progra
Un árbol hidropónico, de tronco y ramas metálicas y 25 metros de altura, constituye la estructura central de este volumen fusiforme; bajo su cubierta de malla metálica se despliega una escenografía que incluye una zona de marjales, un río paseable o
Un conjunto de tanques redondeados, paralelos a la línea de tierra y desplazados entre sí, se agrupan en distintas zonas: la ártica, la de pinnípedos o la de delfines, con las piscinas a distintas cotas y conectadas por rampas. Al diseñar los ambient
El valioso parque de reptiles y anfibios del antiguo zoo abandona el modelo de instalación oscura (obsoleto y procedente de otras latitudes) para aprovechar la luz natural y los medios pasivos de control ambiental. El plano del suelo se ordena median
La edificación se concentra en la banda de terreno más alejada del mar, organizándose el resto a partir de cinco ejes de agua y seis zonas climáticas. Los recorridos por estos paisajes fluvio-terrestres (litoral mediterráneo, lagunas del sureste asiá
Amid ecological pomp the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, inaugurated Copenhagen Zoo’s brand new Panda House, a pavilion carried out by Bjarke Ingels at a cost of 24 million euros. Beyond evoking yin and yang, the unique circular indoor-outdoor enclos
It was designed by Bjarke Ingels, the renowned Danish architect, and cost $24 million to build. It was inaugurated by Queen Margrethe II, Denmark’s reigning monarch. And it now accommodates a celebrity couple with peculiar eating habits and an almost
Uno de los zoos más grandes de los Países Bajos, el Burgers’ Zoo de Arnhem, cuenta con una nueva atracción llamada Rimba (‘selva’ en malayo) en la que se recrea un ecosistema tropical del Sureste Asiático y donde pueden verse tigres de Sumatra, leopa
En el Bois de la Bâtie, un frondoso parque público de Ginebra, los arquitectos de Group 8, junto con la ingeniería Guscetti y Tournier, han construido un aviario cuya estructura se asimila a los troncos de los árboles. Las medidas contra la expansión
