Future zoo design

An international architecture firm, Bjarke Ingels Group has proposed a radical overhaul of the traditional zoo concept, where humans will be the ones kept in enclosures and the animals will roam free. Denmark-based Bjarke Ingels Group has plans to transform the 45-year-old Danish Givskud Zoo into a "Zootopia," by creating large natural environments for animals to live and enclosed spaces where visitors can observe the animals. "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."  

The design is very futuristic and simple. The Initial plans of the redesign show three distinct areas where the animals will be able to live and roam freely: "America," "Asia" and "Africa." All of the areas will be connected by a central square, a circular enclosed area that will blend into the natural environment. This square will serve as a starting point for the zoo's visitors. Their plans on the different ares of the zoo is very amazing as three different country of animal is surrounding you in a form of circle. Beside the central on viewing this animal in a distance, their created different way to explore the animal in the zoo in short distance. Such as using different transport like car, cable car, boat and more.  

A key element of the redesign is that all of the animal environments will be built to simulate their natural environments, while the visitor buildings will be obscured or integrated into the natural landscape as much as possible. They did a very good design as let the animal back to the nature without lock them in a cage and it inspire me to think more on the future and not to lock yourself out.