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Ctrl. G: Catalina Patiño, Viviana Peña

Colaborators: Felipe Vanegas

Vertical Zoo in Puerto Madero. Location. Buenos Aires.2009

When two meaningful ideas crash, this Exoskeleton ZooTower appears as a new sort of animal that just can grow up in these ecological reserve.

1. This Exoskeleton zoo tower  is the reflect of what is happening in this ecological reserve. This landmark pretends to be the reflection of a growing ecosystem where different kind of habitats take place. This different habitats or different platforms make a reclassification of the animals and make new combinations or groups. This groups are created by the way of how these  animals lived and which ones are they natural ecosystems.  This habitable platforms are development each one by levels in a helicoidal system that allows that each of them has a 360 grades of view and conform 6 different habitats. The Grassland forest, the rainforest, the mountain, the swamp and the desert.
2. The Second Important element is to think on a Exoskeleton. Exoskeleton  as the  exterior structure, skeleton, shape and own  support  for many animals.  This Exoskeleton tower  is the support for the different habitable platforms.

This Zoo tower is visible from the river and puts in evidence all this exclusive ecosystem; the ecosystems that already  exist in the ecological reserve and the other that appears once the animal habits are studied.

It’s a tribute of what is happened in this ecological landscape  and the animal structure.