Brookfield Zoo

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Couple more night shots of inside the other tents and looking at a food booth.

 

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Couple more night shots around the pathways.

 

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Last night shot from above of the entire area.

 

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Here is a drone flyover of the Festival area of the zoo.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oT3US4KslY&t=1s

 

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A foggy morning over the Fest area.

 

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Looks like a rain storm rolled in.

 

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What this area looks like after a nice snow.

 

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A couple more snowy shots.

 

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One last shot of the Fest area as the sun is setting and twilight comes over the zoo.
Next will be the mandrill habitat.

 

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Moving on west from the Fest area. Here is a clip of the zoo master pan that providing inspiration for this project. The fest area is in the area between the fountain and the white highlighted area (in half of the West Mall on the plan).

The white area will be the African ungulate area in my project, which will connect to the old pachyderm house, which is now a huge ungulate barn. This white habitat will also include a jeep ride that goes through the habitat.

The pink rectangle will be where Tropic World will be built.

The blue circled area will be the new Gorilla Rescue habitat.

Now we will focus on the green circle which is the mandrill habitat.

Here is the actual game shot of this area as these sections mentioned above get laid out. Color highlights are the same as above.

 

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Layout of the Mandrill area.
Green is the main habitat.
Pink is the secondary smaller habitat.
Blue is the animal bridge that connects the two habitats.
Red is backstage and keeper area (there will actually be a second red area above the pink habitat side as well.

 

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The start of structuring the shape and sizes of the habitats and surrounding paths.

 

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Looking at the early stage of the habitat build from the African Ungulate habitat (that contains a jeep ride). This is the view of the mandrills from the jeeps.

 

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Here is the planned pathway between the two habitat sections. Its built up a bit to have a better angle for viewing. I will fill this ground in with terrain and rocks later.

 

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So, I placed a few animals in the habitats to start to figure out the layouts and where they can move, etc....and just about every guest in the zoo came a running to see what was going on.

 

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Here is what this habitat area ended up looking like once it was nearly completed.
Anywhere there is a pick bracket is guest viewing from paths.
The yellow lines indicate the viewing area from the jeep ride.
The tan box is the animal crossover bridge (over the guest paths).
The green boxes are the backstage animal houses (one for each side of the habitat).
The red boxes are the keeper backstage areas (one for each side of the habitat).
The blue stripes is where the Gorilla Rescue will be located.

 

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This is looking at the habitat from near the Jeep boarding area (the lower right corner in the previous picture).

 

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Here is the view from the jeep ride as you leave the station.

 

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Here is the complete view from the jeep ride.

 

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Looking down on the entire habitat from over the jeep ride.