In 1989, the St. Louis Zoo added a large new exhibit, The Living World, remodeled many of its animal exhibits, and opened an area of the zoo which had formerly been closed to the public. The opening of the Cheetah exhibit, teaching areas, and improvements to animal enclosures necessitated a public relations device to simply explain the coming improvements designed by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. After renovations were complete, this model was on display for over 15 years inside the Living World, serving as a physical map of the park.
The scale is approximately 1″ to 20′, overall size is approximately 6 feet by 9 feet.
I took all of the reference photographs of the existing buildings in order to correctly model them (no architectural drawings were available), I built all of the feature buildings with the light green roofing, prepared the CAD drawings, laser-cut, and finished many of the other major exhibit buildings, as well as the ZOO sculpture near the entrance, which is less than one inch tall.
