WAX, in association with URPS (Urban
and Regional Planning Services), Phillips Pilkington Architects, Lorraine
Edmunds
(interpretation), EBS Ecology and
Heinrich Consulting (cost surveyors) is pleased to have been awarded the opportunity
to develop a Masterplan for Cleland Wildlife Park on behalf of the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Since 2008, Cleland Wildlife Park
(CWP) has been working to create a strategic direction for the future
development of the Park experience. WAX is now be part of a collaborative
process that will build on the CWP strategic plan andto create a new long term
vision for the Park, with particular emphasis on the creation of ‘immersive
wildlife experiences through the provision of high quality landscapes and
interpretation that reinforce a new brand position of ‘close and inspiring
wildlife connections’.
WAX is now working with the rest of
the design team and park staff to expand and diversify the Park into a series
of inter connected immersive habitat experiences that showcase the role of DENR
in conserving South Australia’s fauna and flora promoting the stories of this state’s
wildlife including extinct and endangered species encourage visitors to Cleland
to actively engage in environmental action.