Main Contractor : Houthoff Zoo Design
Further on from my last post, here are some images from the completed Colobus monkey ‘rock’ house at Rotterdam Zoo. We have built a kopje rock inspired boulderscape around three sides of the structure and managed to totally hide the square dimensions of the building. Inside, the zoo building is a fully functional home for Colobus monkeys.
Kopje rock formations are found in the Serengeti of Kenya and Tanzania and can be thought of as islands on the African plain. They are havens for wildlife as they offer protection from the searing sun and offer ‘look outs’ for mammals such as cats and monkeys.
We hope we have made an authentic looking kopje outcrop and at the same time beautified an otherwise boring looking zoo building.
