Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park, gate detail. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Ticket booth plans, sections, and elevations. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Ticket booth developed elevations and millwork details. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Ticket booth detail. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. The chunky hatching is because I was too rushed to re-hatch the section. It didn't seem to bother construction, they ate their lunches on it the same as always.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Gate and ticket booth preview. Modeled in SketchUp Photomatch. I seldom use the photogrammetry features in SketchUp, but this turned out to be a slam dunk and worked well.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Gate and ticket booth. Finished set. See, not bad!
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Ticket booth. Finished set.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Observation tower. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. We bought the legs, they were a section of truss for a construction crane support. The steps and upper structure we built.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Rustic shade structure. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. We had bunches of these around the park and in the enclosures for shading the animals.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Tiger enclosure climbing rocks. Assembly drawing. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. We built the rocks from 12# bead foam covered in cement with welded steel connectors. It had to hold a 500-pound tiger.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Tiger enclosure climbing rocks. Sculptors sections. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. Each rock was carved as a separate unit before being assembled and skim-coated in cement.
Exterior Rossmore Wildlife Park. Tiger enclosure climbing rocks. More sculptors sections. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout. These two pages represent the number of sections used to describe the rocks to the sculptors. Skipping sections was their call.
We Bought a Zoo was a story (based on actual events) about a man who…well…bought a zoo. There was a lot of steel structure with wood cladding and a lot of little rustic structures. There were also a lot of rocks, which had to bear the weight of our animals. Wild animals never listened to the ADs, and climbed on anything they wanted, so everything had to be strong. This was the last transitional project I worked on during my conversion from analog to digital drafting. I started off as an analog draughtsman and, reluctantly, my bosses (deeply suspicious of “characterless” CAD drawings), let me do some 3d previz models and change them into digital drawings. Before I knew it that was all I was doing. I really cleaned up on all the rocks for the animal enclosures. Sectioning a 3d model is a lot easier than working those dozens of sections by hand. Been there. Done that. No. Thanks.
