Walker Macy collaborated with LMN Architects and CLR Design to create a zoo experience that helps highlight one of Woodland Park Zoo’s most impressive conversation efforts – a movement to protect, restore, and sustain the world’s forests and the species who call them home. Situated near the Zoo’s main entrance, the exhibit includes a pavilion for talks and special events along with an elevated walkway offering viewpoints unlike anywhere else in the zoo. Zoo visitors will be able to see Matschie’s tree kangaroos up in the treetops and learn about conservation efforts in Papua New Guinea, where Woodland Park Zoo has been working with communities on the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program for over 25 years to save one of the last intact cloud forests of the world. The project also includes habitats for red pandas, and keas (alpine parrots native to New Zealand) and forest reptiles. Walker Macy collaborated with the team on visitor experience and circulation and led the development of a complex planting plan that showcases species from three different types of global forests.
Renderings courtesy of LMN Architects.
CLR Design