Photograph by Jo Sittenfeld
This is the snow leopard enclosure that we worked with. There were many limitations such as a small entranceway, uneven eroded terrain, and needing to anchor or make a device heavy enough to withstand being tipped over.
During our midterm critique, we brought the prototype to Roger Williams Park Zoo to receive feedback from 15+ zookeepers and managers
As part of our process, I used Solidworks to model the prototype in separate parts as I solved the trigonometry for the angles and measurements. It helped guide our process of building the physical cardboard prototype and visualize how it would look in the enclosure by rendering it in Keyshot.
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