Hi everyone, I have been working on a design for a speculative zoo/aquatic facility based on certain locations around the world. Think of something along the lines of Dallas World Aquarium on a larger scale, with vastly improved enclosures (many of my location ideas came from DWA's layout as a starting point). I have this designed as a hybrid zoo and aquarium - roughly 50% aquatics, 25% reptiles/amphibians, 20% birds, and 5% mammals. Currently, the layout is as follows:
Temperate Waters
My main question to you - are there any interesting areas that I've missed in this plan? Anything you would add, or like to see? I'd love your feedback!
Temperate Waters
- Seabirds of the World (including Iceland, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, South Africa, and New Zealand)
- American Waterways (including the Great Lakes, the Southern Appalachians, Eastern Texas/Oklahoma, Florida, a desert mountain stream, and a Mid-Atlantic coastal drainage)
- British Columbia (gallery)
- East Asia (including a South Chinese forest and the waters surrounding Japan)
- Southern Australia (including Lord Howe Island)
- Congo Rainforest (gallery)
- Indo-Pacific Islands (one gallery each, representing Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Outer Indonesian Islands, and New Guinea)
- Mekong Giants (large display situated between Sri Lanka and Sumatra)
- Queensland Rainforest (gallery)
- South Pacific Islands (gallery representative of Fiji, Palau, and Hawaii)
- Reef Drop-Off (large display for reef sharks and several other species)
- Life in the Atoll (large living reef display with several species of fish and invertebrate)
- Baja Peninsula (gallery)
- Yucatan Peninsula (gallery)
- Caribbean (gallery including large shark and live reef displays)
- Amazon Rainforest (largest of the galleries, unless you count all of the Indo-Pacific Islands put together)
- Even though the descriptions for this section are short, rest assured that each of these galleries is significantly larger than most others in the facility
My main question to you - are there any interesting areas that I've missed in this plan? Anything you would add, or like to see? I'd love your feedback!