Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
The playful interactions of the work allow for all demographics to converse, listen, and learn from one another.
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
The undulating pattern is formed from NOAA data points and designed to feel like a building wave.
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Signage explaining the work sits at the front end of the planter bed.
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
The lighting is timed so once you reach the opposite end they all begin to turn off.
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Photo credit:
Ryan Swanson
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
Interactive Artwork Utilizes Play as a Tool to Spark an Open Conversation Around Sea Level Rise
The Urban Conga
Photo credit:
Maria Flanagan
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
A colorful main entrance invites guests to use their imagination while entering the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ).
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
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A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
The entrance to the interactive Museum and learning spaces with a view of the Zoo to the left.
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Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Large swings invite curiosity and play at the entrance to the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ).
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Natural elements surround the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ).
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
View from the educational wing and courtyard.
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Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Detail of the educational and administrative support spaces wing.
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Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
The education wing was designed to fit in and around the existing mature Oaks.
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Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Detail of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ)'s educational and administrative support spaces wing.
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Exhibits provide concrete, multi-sensorial and kinesthetic learning experiences that spark curiosity about physics, earth science and the natural world.
Photo credit:
Artem Nazarov Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
Inside the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ)'s main exhibit hall.
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
A New Zoo Experience in Silicon Valley
CAW Architects
The Zoo itself is a large aviary for birds to fly freely.
Photo credit:
Marco Zecchin Photography
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