![]() ![]() ![]() Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange Who knows perhaps a rhino can teach us something about how we live - or could live in the future?" Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Image courtesy of BIG Site Plan. ![]() We are pleased to embark on an exciting journey of discovery with the Givskud staff and population of animals - and hope that we could both enhance the quality of life for the animals as well as the keepers and guests – but indeed also to discover ideas and opportunities that we will be able to transfer back into the urban jungle. To create a framework for such diverse users and residents such as gorillas, wolves, bears, lions and elephants is an extremely complex task. It is our dream - with Givskud - to create the best possible and freest possible environment for the animals’ lives and relationships with each other and visitors. Nowhere is this challenge more acrimonious than in a zoo. ![]() We must make sure that our cities offer a generous framework for different people - from different backgrounds, economy, gender, culture, education and age – so they can live together in harmony while taking into account individual needs as well as the common good. "Architects’ greatest and most important task is to design man-made ecosystems - to ensure that our cities and buildings suit the way we want to live. But let's have a look at BIG's proposal right below. On one hand, a manmade zoo can never fully replace the animals' true natural habitat, no matter how spacious or meticulously replicated. Human visitors can stay out of the animals' plain sight by observing and ogling at them in structures integrated as much as possible into the landscape. The proposal includes a spacious cage-free zoo landscape for the animals to roam in, which is divided into three zones titled "Asia", "Africa", and "America". BIG brings out a rather "wild" concept in Zootopia, a commission they received from the iconic Givskud Zoo in Denmark. ![]()
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