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Where the Wild Things Are

Part 2 Project 2012
Percy Weston
 Royal College of Art | UK
What if a safari park could bring together an area of London that is divided by glaring contrasts of wealth and deprivation?

The new Thames Safari Park links Deptford in the South to Canary Wharf in the North with a continuous, winding strip of wilderness, transport and leisure. The safari landscape weaves through the city, at some points a dramatic focal point, and others, a secret oasis. The new African Savannah Bridge over the River Thames and the House of the Great Apes between the towers of Canary Wharf typify this limbic and surreal zone where nothing outside matters – insistently luring travellers between the conglomerates of Canada Square and the street markets of Deptford.

Where the Wild Things Are challenges traditional hierarchies between man and beast. The architecture choreographs opportunities for lives, territories, narratives and worlds to overlap and interweave. The rest, is up to us.
Percy Weston
Tutor(s)
Kevin Carmody
Andy Groarke
Lewis Kinneir
2012
What if a Safari Park could bring together an area of London that is divided by glaring contrasts of wealth and deprivation?
Axonometric of entire scheme stretching from Deptford to Canary Wharf, with selected larger scale details of territories.
Diagrammatic masterplans detailing key architectural components.
Axonometric of African Savannah Safari Bridge on the River Thames.
Section Through African Savannah Bridge, the Savannah Service Station and the shopping promenade on the River Thames.
Walking through the wilderness of the African Savannah on the River Thames.
Axonometric of Asiatic Elephant Paddock & Pachyderm Heights.
Riding to work through the Asiatic Elephants’ House with onlookers.
Outline strategy for the core typologies of the project, and diagrammatic sections explaining key sectional configurations.
Entrance & edge conditions of the Thames Safari.
Encounters with city life along the length of the Thames Safari Park.
Transport through the Thames Safari - Axonometric and views from Inner Mongolian Reserve & the East Asian Saltwater Reserve.
House of the Great Apes and vertical jungle between the towers of Canary Wharf.
Descending under the rainforest canopy to the entrance of Canary Wharf Shopping Centre.
Where the Wild Things Are – exhibition and portfolio chest.
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