Nature's Neighborhoods - Franklin Park Zoo

(Boston, MA)

CLIENT- Main Street Design
CREATIVE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN- Main Street Design
EXHIBIT DESIGN- Janiga Design

Nature’s Neighborhoods intermingles live animal exhibits with emulative and parallel play activities and whole body “safe risk” adventure and imaginative play experiences. The project is loosely organized into three biome-based multi-species live animal exhibit and experience zones: Woodlands, Wetlands, and Grasslands. These are linked by an exploratory play environment, the Thicket, that takes the form of a highly stylized evocation of a classic New England transitional pasture, an ecotone where several different “natural neighborhoods” and their inhabitants overlap and intersect.