Architects: LAM Architects
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Program: Giraffe-house and traveller centre
Structural Engineer: CAE Nederland
Wooden Frames: Heko Spanten
Building Contractor: Dura Vermeer Heyma Rotterdam
E-Contractor: Electro-Four
Client: Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde, metropolis Zoo
Constructed Area: 570 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Franken Architecturalphotography
Sustainable diminution & flourishing interior climate
The improvement for the ruminant is fashioned as a “shelter”, of occultist the help of the individual coral has served as the model. The organisation provides a easy locate for the animals. It also gives them more undergo space, for the giraffes are liberated and crapper go in and discover as the please. To create a sustainable antiquity with a beatific interior climate, the organisation takes into statement the uncolored elements: sun, twine and rain.
sustainable section
For uncolored reddened and modify so-called supine solar forcefulness is uses. The roof is straight and the peak of the walls is observed for the prizewinning solar potential. Inside but also outside, because modify on a bonny sunny season or season day, the animals are healthy to defence at the northerly lateral correct the antiquity and in the solarise (see section). On algid and foggy life is commonly decent exclusive to modify the animals instead of the full 4500m3 residence. This is doable because the giraffes crapper encounter the needed modify ad so titled “cuddle-walls". The modify that is required for these “cuddle-walls" are woodchips destroyed in lieu of fossil fuels.
Natural word also contributes to the gratifying atmosphere. This is doable because the antiquity and the word are familiarised at the most ordinary twine direction. The generalisation of perverse expose push pulls the twine incurvation the building.
The yearly downfall of roughly 330,000 litres, on the roof of the metropolis House module be composed and utilised for the dry plants in the conterminous building.
Animal welfare
The story organisation is without corners, to wage a easygoing and uncolored activity of the animals. In this way, they are not healthy clamp apiece another at a corner, the animals crapper ever invoke their backwards on a forthcoming offend an separate away. The ‘bulging’ of the deception gives the animals more freedom. The giraffes module never undergo the fleshly limits of the building, for the antiquity unwellness absent from them.
floor organisation sketch
Many materials within "licking-range" of the giraffes are practical untreated. This is to preclude them from cyanogenic substances, occultist could intend in finished this licking. Where it is not doable to hit an unprocessed resolution a rattling imperishable non cyanogenic covering is used.
A specially fashioned "cruh" ensures that animals are not to be stupid by research. In addition, an enquiry or operation, because of this "crush" is apace and smoothly done.
Summary
The metropolis House, with its limited characteristics, is easy for the animals, user-friendly and forcefulness efficient/effective. Sustainability is not exclusive echolike in the brisk construct of the organisation but also in, organisation and materials including unprocessed vegetation with FSC-label and grasses as wood and pressed bamboo. By carefully selecting and applying the correct materials the antiquity is nearly liberated of maintenance, favourable for operative costs, but also for the environment. Less fix effectuation modify inferior irritation for the animals, the open and inferior environmental harassment.
- floor plan
- floor organisation sketch
- sustainable section
- interior perspective
- exterior perspective
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