Panda House, Copenhagen Zoo: Building Images, Danish Architecture Development
Panda House in Copenhagen Zoo
Home for Animals in Denmark – design by BIG Arkitekter
28 Mar 2017
Panda House, Copenhagen Zoo
Architects: BIG
Location: Roskildevej 32, Copenhagen, Denmark
Panda House in Copenhagen Zoo
The design of the new Panda House begins with a circular shape, formed by the surrounding existing facilities at the intersection of multiple walkways. Panda House is designed to feel like humans are the visitors in the Pandas? home, rather than Pandas being the exotic guests from faraway lands.

The habitat forms the freest and most naturalistic possible environment for their lives and relationship with each other, providing the freedom to roam about and the ideal conditions to mate ? one of the major challenges facing Pandas from becoming endangered.
 

?Architecture is like portraiture. To design a home for someone is like capturing their essence, their character and personality in built form. In the case of the two great Pandas, their unique solitary nature requires two similar but separate habitats – one for her and one for him. The habitat is formed like a giant yin and yang symbol, two halves: the male and the female, complete each other to form a single circular whole.

The curvy lines are undulating in section to create the necessary separation between him and her – as well as between them and us. Located at the heart of the park, we have made the entire...