Design For Life Consultancy

Design For Life Consultancy is a Singapore-based firm specialised in the design of zoos, zoo exhibits and other nature related attractions. Its founder and principal designer, Michael Graetz has some 35 years experience in zoo design, including 20 years leading Singapore Zoo's in-house design effort.

Design For Life works with a network of architects, landscape architects and zoologists to create collaborative teams of professionals tailored to the requirements of each project.

Design For Life has undertaken projects mostly in Asia and the Middle East but also in the U.K. Our philosophy is to build on our practical knowledge of zoo operations and management to ensure our projects are functional for the client and yet we aim to innovate, to take ideas and draw inspiration from sources other than zoos.

This, briefly is what Design For Life is. It is about design for life in the widest sense: both human life and animal life.

• Over three decades of experience in zoo design
• Led by the former head of Singapore Zoo's Creative Design Team
• Understands zoos from the inside; the problems and practices of zoo keepers and managers
• Understands animal management from zoo and protected area (national park) perspectives
• Intimately involved with the conception, design & development of the first open air, nocturnal zoo in the world - Night Safari, Singapore
• Unique Asian-based Asian perspective
• Provided zoo design services to clients in Seychelles, U.A.E., Qatar, India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Myanmar and Singapore
• Access to a network of allied consultants, biologists, educators, zoo and wildlife husbandry specialists
• Innovation in design and product - thinking outside the enclosure