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Indianapolis Zoo – Orangutan Exhibit

Indianapolis, Indiana

Architect: Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf
Completion: 2012

The International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo is one the most innovative zoo exhibits in the world. Through state-of-the-art exhibits and interactive computer games, visitors are offered an unprecedented intimate level of interaction with one of the planet’s most endangered primates. A landmark project in the arena of animal husbandry, the facility affords its occupants the freedom to travel in and around the exhibit building with greater mobility than the human visitors.

The lighting design of the interior spaces uses robust and temper proof fixtures, which arranged arithmetically to produce a dramatic effect. The orangutans have special iPads by which they can control the lighting on the spire.