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Madagascar Play
Chester, United Kingdom
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Madagascar Play
Chester, United Kingdom
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Chester Zoo is one of the UK’s largest zoos with over 20,000 animals in 125 acres of award-winning zoological gardens. It is the most visited wildlife attraction in Britain with just around 1.8 million visitors per year and was voted the UK’s best Zoo by trip advisor last year.
There’s so much to discover in our brand-new Madagascar play space at Chester Zoo. Climb like a lemur and uncover the tree-top hideaways in the Lost Forest, crawl across the scramble nets like an aye-aye and play in the sandy beach like a ploughshare tortoise! (Animal impressions encouraged.) Make a BIG splash in the dry riverbed when it floods or play hide and seek in the Madagascan grasses. There’s even a chance to explore the Madagascar field station and find challenge boxes with a few wildlife surprises to discover.
There are several key themes and objectives that run through the scheme, including:- the use of Natural materials and a need to create a deeper connection with nature, the need for managed risk in development, the creation of welcoming and innovative people niches – for kids, teenagers, adults, grandparents and families and a flexible landscape where children can manipulate their environment to suit their imagination.
The scheme provide an extremely positive experience for its users in a number of ways:
- by encouraging creative play,
- by facilitating active play in a challenging environment with elements of danger and uncertainty,
- by allowing adults to play alongside and with their children,
- by encouraging co-operation and collaboration between people who have never met before
- by providing a really wide range of potential experiences from highly active to peacefully contemplative and including role playing,
-by imparting information about the flora and fauna of Madagascar it is educational. The scheme creates a stage set for events to happen which change throughout the day
Since its completion, the scheme has provided an important positive civic contribution by enhancing the reputation of the zoo in the provision of inclusive, inter-generational play design. In the 12 months since it’s completion it has had in the region of 1.8 million visitors, with zoo research indicating that almost all visitors to the zoo with children of all ages ensure that they visit the Explorers of Madagascar space.
There’s so much to discover in our brand-new Madagascar play space at Chester Zoo. Climb like a lemur and uncover the tree-top hideaways in the Lost Forest, crawl across the scramble nets like an aye-aye and play in the sandy beach like a ploughshare tortoise! (Animal impressions encouraged.) Make a BIG splash in the dry riverbed when it floods or play hide and seek in the Madagascan grasses. There’s even a chance to explore the Madagascar field station and find challenge boxes with a few wildlife surprises to discover.
There are several key themes and objectives that run through the scheme, including:- the use of Natural materials and a need to create a deeper connection with nature, the need for managed risk in development, the creation of welcoming and innovative people niches – for kids, teenagers, adults, grandparents and families and a flexible landscape where children can manipulate their environment to suit their imagination.
The scheme provide an extremely positive experience for its users in a number of ways:
- by encouraging creative play,
- by facilitating active play in a challenging environment with elements of danger and uncertainty,
- by allowing adults to play alongside and with their children,
- by encouraging co-operation and collaboration between people who have never met before
- by providing a really wide range of potential experiences from highly active to peacefully contemplative and including role playing,
-by imparting information about the flora and fauna of Madagascar it is educational. The scheme creates a stage set for events to happen which change throughout the day
Since its completion, the scheme has provided an important positive civic contribution by enhancing the reputation of the zoo in the provision of inclusive, inter-generational play design. In the 12 months since it’s completion it has had in the region of 1.8 million visitors, with zoo research indicating that almost all visitors to the zoo with children of all ages ensure that they visit the Explorers of Madagascar space.
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