After such a long wait, it's finally here; formerly a shopping mall, the Rainforest Center is ready to fascinate and educate.
Species list in the comments.
Next up: soccer stadium zoo.
How well will the dead ends do at a crowded day?
What is the actual scale?
Why are the staff-areas located where they are?
Ist an old shopping mall capable to have high humidity for a long time or is this mold-city after a few weeks?
Are the exhibits separated to all else to have the right temperature for the animals?
How would a logical path for visitors go through the building?
@Animal So, here are some answers;
If you notice, most of my zoos, this being no exception, don't have many dead ends; the only one here is between the second jaguar exhibit and the raptors.
I based this map on La Maquinista Shopping Center, Barcelona, which is one of the largest the city has.
Staff areas, which include off-exhibit animal holdings, are strategically placed in order for every animal to have an access to this area, and for zookeepers to access every enclosure. You will find this structure in pretty much ALL of my zoos.
The old shopping mall would only keep the base structure and glass-dominated outer facade; the buildings would be thoroughly reformed from within to tolerate humidity, like most tropical jungle houses in zoos worldwide.
The ONLY outdoor exhibits are 1 and 2, the raptor cages. EVERYTHING else would be fully indoors and have the correct temperature and humidity.
As stated in the guide, the yellow trails are visitor paths, which can be walked on both ways; there is no strict order, encouraging more-or-less free exploration, strictly within the yellow and white paths however.