Wood and Natural Materials

The 'Into Africa' Section used the wood and surrounding walls/fences and painted on them. I thought the over all effect made it more 'fun'. They also already used wooden signs for the animals, tied to the fences with rope, it seemed more natural than the metal signs and vinyl stuck onto windows/doors. However I felt the use of colour made it look a bit more like a theme park than a zoo. Like something you would find at disneyland. Colour is good, but I feel like they used the colour just to make it bright, rather than using the colour to maybe colour code the type of animal, or where they were from in the world etc. A colour coding system where the signage, line etc is colour coded accordingly. Finola also said about ambient colours, and colours that soothe and colours that raise the pulse/aggrivate people, I will try and find out more about that.