Zoo + Animal Care
About Our Firm For more than 39 years, Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects has partnered with our clients to help realize their architectural, design and planning visions. Our firm has developed a distinct expertise and passion in planning, programming and designing for animals, zoo patrons and the dedicated staff that serves them. From masterplanning to exhibits, research facilities to retail and entertainment, we create engaging and sustainable environments that celebrate and support life.
Exhibit Design
The integration of 4 Asian elephants from the San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park with the San Diego Zoo’s 3 African elephants provided a perfect opportunity to replace the outdated elephant habitat as well as over 9-acres of other aging exhibits in the center of the zoo. The resulting redevelopment was the Zoo’s largest single project in its history touching over 30 separate species in 21 individual structures. The redevelopment included updates and expansions to primary utilities, demolition of 9 aged exhibits, mass grading of the entire site (over 8 acres), construction of major roads and retaining walls and mitigation of hazardous materials prior to demolition.
Elephant Odyssey Exhibit at the San Diego Zoo
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This range of exhibits and accommodations, delivered as a single design and construction project, represents many individual projects, each requiring individual programming and interface with separate Curators, Keepers and Stakeholders.
Elephant Habitat
Recognized for Excellence • Orchid in People’s Choice, SDAF, 2010 • AZA Excellence in Marketing Award, 2010 • AZA Exhibit Award for Significant Achievement, 2010 • Design Award of Merit by California Council Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), 2010 • Excellence in Construction Award from the Associated Builders & Contractors, San Diego Chapter, 2009 • Land Development Project Award of Excellence by ASCE San Diego Section, 2010
Size: 96,524 SF
Lion and Jaguar Habitat
Size: 5,257 SF
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Panda Canyon
Leopard Exhibit
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Mixed Species Habitat
Size: 6,298 SF
Secretary Bird Habitat
Size: 1,156 SF
Rattlesnake Habitat
Size: 190 SF
California Condor Habitat
Size: 7,415 SF
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Hooved Species Habitat
Size: 12,866 SF
Insect Exhibit
Size: 303 SF
Streamside Habitat
Size: 1,401 SF
Masterplanning
Plaza Entry at the San Diego Zoo
Size: 2.5
Neri Landscape Architecture
Elephant Odyssey at the San Diego Zoo
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Size: 9
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Studio Hansen Roberts
Studio Hansen Roberts
Kid’s Kingdom at the San Diego Zoo
Studio Hansen Roberts
Size: 1.8 acres
Desert Tortoise
Size: 40,000 SF
Support Facilities
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Fossil Portal at the San Diego Zoo
Size: 1,889 SF
Signage + Wayfinding at the San Diego Zoo
Sabertooth Grille at the San Diego Zoo
Size: 3,459 SF
Tusker’s Trunk at the San Diego Zoo
Size: 929 SF
Life Support at the San Diego Zoo
Size: 2,000 SF
Research Facilities
FPBA designed the facility to house a research center which is home to the one-of-a-kind Frozen Zoo and contains more than 8,000 living tissue samples; a Wildlife Disease Laboratory working to prevent the spread of diseases in both zoo and wild animal populations; and The Reproductive Physiology Division which uses innovative technologies to assist in the reproduction of endangered species, including giant pandas, kiwis, and several aquatic species. More than 150 research professionals in nine different fields gather scientific knowledge and carry out research vital to the conservation of animals, plants, and habitats in over 35 countries worldwide.
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Research Center
Recognized for Efficiency • Excellence in Sustainability Awards by the National CMA, 2008 • Honor Award for Sustainable Design by the AIACC CMA California/Nevada, 2008 • USGBC LEED NC Silver Certification • Solar panels provide electricity for 10% of the building • $300,000 in combined SDG&E incentives and state rebates for incorporation of energy saving features and for use of solar panels • Exceeds State of California Energy requirements by 20% • Water reclamation systems (all waste water diverted to onsite treatment facility)
References
References Steve Fobes, AIA Project Manager Zoological Society of San Diego (619) 557-3940 sfobes@sandiegozoo.org Robin Badger Project Manager Zoological Society of San Diego (619) 557-3902 rbadger@sandiegozoo.org
Ed Lewins Exhibits Project Coordinator Curators Zoological Society of San Diego (619) 557-3902 elewins@sandiegozoo.org Kevin Haupt Associate Director of Facilities Zoological Society of San Diego (619) 231-1515 x4293 khaupt@sandiegozoo.org Terrance J. Bruggeman Executive Chairman BioTork, LLC (858) 356-9563 tjbruggeman@gmail.com
Don Kent President Hubbs - Sea World (619) 226-3870 dkent@hswri.org Bob Lorenzini Logistics Manager Legoland California LLC (760) 918-5313 bob.lorenzi@america.lego.com