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Lynx habitat

In the spring of 2018 we built rockwork to hide a service wall in Helsinki Zoo’s new Eurasian Lynx Habitat.

architect drawings of zoo exhibit
Architect drawings with our rock design overlayed.
Snowy building site inspection
A very chilly pre-work site inspection!
Block wall in new zoo exhibit
We have to hide this wall.
Sprayed concrete hollow log.
Making hollow log which will be a secret viewing place.
lynx habitat in zoo
The finished environment after one year.
Lynx in zoo habitat
The lynx views her habitat.

Ten inspirational natural rock formations

As rockwork artists, we often find ourselves searching the web for reference pictures. Matching a habitat to an animal is usually the first stage when developing a project. Matching a species to a geographical locale is a high consideration as is rock texture, form and colouring. Nobody wants to see animals kept in concrete cages anymore and thankfully, forward thinking zoo’s now invest more time and money into species specific habitats.

This early research also works for other artificial environment reproductions wether it be an aquarium, theme park attraction or whatever. Often the client doesn’t know exactly what he or she wants. Gather a collection of reference images and it will prevent a lot of grey areas as the project develops.

The following ten images were accumulated whilst researching a project which required heavily stratified rock formations.