Korkeasaari Zoo / Beckmann-N’Thépé architects – TN+ landscape designers
Architect: Beckmann-N’Thépé architects – Aldric Beckmann, Françoise N’thépé
Landscape design : TN+ / Bruno Tanant & Jean-Christophe Nani
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Project Manager: Wilfried Daufy
Project Architect: Anne-Catherine Dufros
Assistant Architects: Constance Héau, Jessica Pallatier
Landscape design team: Guillaume Derrien & Agathe Turmel
Zoo expert: Jean Marc Lernould
Constructed Area: 26,2 ha
The zoological island of Korkeasaari will be cut off again. Its architectural interventions will be concentrated to make it wild and mysterious once more – a park / garden as a place of popular privilege, the nobility of the future city.
Architecture disappears in favour of controlled geography, like the resurgence of a neighbouring landscape. The entrance grouping the set of utilities crucial to the running of the zoo becomes a focus of visual identity, somewhere between form and shapelessness, pierced with cavities.
Like layers of skin peeled back to receive an implant, there will be an above and a below that dialogue and interpenetrate one another. Areas of light, uncertainty, reflections and depths will be developed, offering the first emotions of a visit that will play on time and the seasons through four biozones:
- Central Asian Steppe
- Arctic Pole
- Asian Temperate Forest
- Central Asian Mountain
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- lower level plan
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- upper level plan
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- polar bear enclosure plan
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- section AA detail
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- section AA
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- section BB
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- surface areas
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wow. beautiful project. the drawing are unbelievable, and represent the project perfectly. You can tell how much work was put into this, and how proud the architects are. I hope this gets built. I also can’t resist the nod to bucky… gotta love it.
The renderings are to die for!
YES, The renderings are to die for but the project-a misunderstanding of the local ecologic system and morphologic landscape.
This is the reason for the angle choosen for the project presentation. the architect decided to implant a building that can be everywhere and nowhere.
I like it , although the roof is kind of “the project”.nice drawings and renders