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Location: Brookfield, Illinois
Architect: EHDD Architecture
Client: The Chicago Zoological Society
Consultants: McClier (program manager); Klein & Hoffman Inc. (structural); Environmental Systems Design Inc. (MEP, fire protection); Edwin Hancock Engineering (civil); Mesa (exterior exhibits, landscape); Progressive Communications (lighting); Oppenheim Lewis, Inc.
Photographer: © Doug Snower Photography
Zoo buildings present the great challenge of creating architecture for exhibits of “outdoor” space. The key to this successful solution is a back wall broken into unequal elements set at slightly varied angles and clad in common asphalt shingles. Inside, the wall engages a 9,300-square-foot African rain forest exhibit. Outside, the building demurs to landscape, becoming a series of abstract planes sometimes barely seen through surrounding forest.
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