The Territory Wildlife Park opened in 1989 to preserve, present and interpret the unique wet/dry and wet forest ecosystems of Australia’s Top End. Ten years later Jon, a consultant to HASSELL Pty. Ltd., helped the design team focus site opportunities and the client’s “wish list” to form a unique master plan.

Build several small aviaries for local birds from local materials and move them every few years or even seasonally.

Drawings by by Jon Coe

While several proposed exhibits will require significant financial investment, many are proposed to be simple “field fit” concepts. Bush aviaries, for example, would display migrating honey creepers and later could be taken down or moved to accommodate seasonal bush burning operations. This type of simplicity and flexibility insures a “Territory style” character to development and could become a model to other in-situ interpretive displays.

Jon was a principal for CLRdesign, inc., consulting to HASSELL, Pty. Ltd. Other design team members included ECOZ and Troppo Architects. David Lawson represented the Park and Wildlife Commission while Derek Spielman and his staff represented the Territorial Wildlife Park.

AILA (QLD) 1999 Merit Award, Landscape Master Plan