Master Planning
Roto offers strategy, interpretive planning, conceptual experience design, and fundraising support for institutions seeking to map the future of audiences, facilities, exhibits and fundamental missions.
Discovery and delight.
Whether directly to the institution or contracted through the project architect, Roto’s specialty is delivering conservation learning and enlightenment at exceptional levels of quality and social engagement.
Future proof.
Exhibit design for major living collections must vie with new technology solutions to spark visitor interest and help drive attendance. Roto delivers both.
Permission to play.
Roto animates indoor and outdoor spaces with a wide range of imaginative, creative, richly themed features, from custom play zones and climbers to delightful interactive discoveries.
Roto knows about guests and the guest experience. They are pros in the creative world of making a guest experience unforgettable and excellent.
- John P. Chapo, President/CEO Lincoln Children's Zoo
Services
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Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Master Plan, 2019 -
Mote SEA Concept Design, 2020 Exhibit Design
Roto is the leading subconsultant for specialty aquarium and aquatic animal exhibit design, at any scale, in North America, with extensive additional experience designing for live invertebrate environments (bugs and butterflies), reptiles and amphibians, birds, and small mammal enclosures, fully coordinated with architectural, LSS and facility engineering requirements.
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Interpretive & Theming Design
Roto’s zoo and aquarium experience began with theming and interpretive design, creating coherent and compelling messages in themed environments, murals and props, signage and labels, custom sculptured models and artwork, interactive encounters, and staff-led educational programs. Our work includes extensive research and experience in how to engage guests emotionally and personally with conservation causes and action.
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Custom Play Features
As a leading producer of custom indoor and outdoor children's museum experiences, Roto delivers original sculpture, climbers, nature play, and other family-focused delights for zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and public parks.
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Indianapolis Zoo, Race a Cheetah Interactive Engineering
As a world-leading developer of interactive experiences for the museum and entertainment sectors, Roto has delivered unique first-hand experiences for zoos and nature centers that create instant buzz and memorability. From squirting elephant statues to racing cheetahs, animal comparison contests to macroscopic views of gorgeous insects, Roto can both design and deliver original media-based or electromechanical delights on any subject.
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Hogle Zoo, Elephant Encounter View Case Study → Design-Build
For projects with complex integration of custom theming, exhibit, interpretive, media, or interactive elements, Roto provides complete in-house design-build accountability, or sole-source contracting within larger GC scopes, to guarantee on-time and on-budget results.
Case Studies
See all the Zoos & Aquariums Projects →-
Mote SEA Expansion →
Mote Science Education Aquarium -
Pacific Rim Aquarium →
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium -
Indoor & Outdoor Nature Play →
Lincoln Children's Zoo -
The Living Core →
Frost Museum of Science -
Heart of Africa →
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium -
Caribbean Journey →
Texas State Aquarium
