BETWEEN THE MONSTROUS AND SUBLIME

Vertical Zoo

Location

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Completion

2011

Type

Public

We structured the location of animals within the zoo on activities rather than geography – classifying them not by where they come from but by their characteristic activities – climbing, running, swimming, floating, burrowing, tree-swinging – offering new contexts and unfamiliar relationships between the animals. We designed the movement through this 100m high vertical zoo to carefully orchestrate the necessary animal separation without conventional animal enclosures – allowing a continuous unfolding visual experience between the different animal species and human visitors.

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Credits

Team

Andrew Burges, Laure Vandenbroucke, Louise Lovmand, Sofia Husni, Celia Carroll

Andrew Burges Architects

32/61 Marlborough St
Surry Hills NSW 2010

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