EDMONTON VALLEY ZOO CHILDREN'S PRECINCT

摘要

The Edmonton Valley Zoo is in the midst of a massive capital improvement effort aimed at establishing it as a leader in the realms of conservation, environmental stewardship and education. The renewal of the Zoo's children's precinct presented the opportunity to help realize these aspirations through the reconceptualization of the spatial and experiential elements that make up the precinct's many habitat, exhibit, holding and visitor amenity spaces. Whereas zoo design has historically opted for a distinct division between human visitors and animal inhabitants, more recent approaches have foregrounded the importance of immersion as a means of enriching the educational value of exhibits, while simultaneously improving the living conditions of the resident animals.