Architecture for animals: biodiversity, shelters, habitats
Architecture is made for humans, but how do you design it beyond the human scale? Along with the renewed interest in biodiversity and animal habitat accelerated by the climate crisis, it also makes sense to design shelter issues and spaces for interaction and rehabilitation. When architects look beyond structure for people, they turn their attention to different types of enclosures and open spaces that rethink their involvement with animals and their well-being.
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Whether you’re looking at animal architecture through shelters, zoo enclosures, or rehab spaces, they all share a common focus on scale, experience, and environment. The following projects will introduce habitat and enclosure systems around the world and discuss the relationship between animals and design. It differs greatly in terms of program, and there is also a separate approach to the form and surrounding context. Together, they begin to represent relationships between experience, interactions and animal life.
Most urban areas of Almere, with a population of about 190,000, have contact farms. There used to be one in the “Denwill” park, but it burned down in the early 80’s, leaving only the concrete foundation. In early 2005, the design team was asked by the municipality of Almere to design a new petting farm in the exact location and on the rest of the foundation. The building was finally built with almost no sponsorship funding and was completed in late 2008.
Educan School is trying to sit in the field and restore the state of the ecosystem in a rural environment that has changed over the last few decades due to urban development and intensive agriculture that relies on pesticides. While the two main classrooms are busy with dog-human pairs practicing agility, or dog sports like Schutzhund, the bird’s nest in front of the nest on the upper floors is ideal with views. I am proud of the direction.
This cat cafe is located in Shanghai’s famous Tianzifang commercial district, with only narrow doors leading to the street. The main space used is on the 2nd and 3rd floors. It’s not a typical commercial space design, but an old home renovation project. Cats are the main users of the entire space every day. The design goal is to provide a comfortable and playful space for cats and a freezing space for customers.
These are two animal-related buildings, an animal shelter and a crematorium on the border between the industrial land Maatide and the nature reserve Lommelsahara. The relocation to industrial land was not accustomed to accommodating public buildings, as the buildings lacked a fascinating public reputation. As an architectural assignment, the program was also quite unfamiliar and therefore required the study of new and meaningful typologies.
In collaboration with Cát Tiên National Park, Free the Bears and Building Trust International, COLE has completed the design of a series of buildings for raising bears rescued from illegal wildlife trade and the bear industry. The result is a modular, light-filled gabion structure that aims to blend nature and function. The place was on the other side of the river, meaning that supplies had to be carried across. A further challenge was the location next to a forested jungle hill in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks.
Located in the farmlands and vineyards of the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, Sesstein Architects (UK) and Watson Architecture + Design (Melbourne) have been commissioned to design a new riding center. Clients are based not only in the UK but also locally, seeking a scheme that is functional and practical, yet sympathizes with the landscape through the use of materials for its architectural form and its durability and sustainability. was doing.
Architecture Matters negotiates a contrasting hard-edged urban and idyllic green space surrounding the Stonenington Animal Pound site, while addressing the modern architecture of the existing Pound building and adjacent Stonenington Depot complex. We sought to meet the forecasting requirements to sustainably accommodate the growth of the municipality. Population of lost and abandoned cats in “best practice” accommodation.
Foster + Partners has completed the Erafant House at the Copenhagen Zoo for a group of Indian elephants. The elephant house is covered with a lightweight glass dome that surrounds the space with a strong visual connection to the sky and a changing pattern of sunlight. Elephants can gather here or in an adjacent paddock. A large public viewing terrace runs outside the dome, and a sloping promenade leads to the educational space, overlooking the enclosure along the way.
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