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| Product: Draincore²
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| City: Knoxville, Tennessee
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| Application: Drainage layer under sandbox.
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| Install Date: May 2004
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| Install Size: 50 m² (540 ft²)
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| Address: 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville,
TN 37914-0040
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| Client: Knoxville Zoo
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| Architect: Johnson Architecture, Inc.
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| Contractor: Merit Construction, Blount
Excavating
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| Directions: From the west - Take I-40 east
toward Knoxville, then take exit 392 to US11W south and follow the signs
to the Knoxville Zoo. From the east - Take I-40 west toward
Knoxville, then take exit 392A and merge onto Rutledge Pike/ TN-1/ US-11W
and follow the signs to the Knoxville Zoo.
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| Location: Located
at the old entrance to the Knoxville Zoo, "Kid's Cove" is
constructed using 3 of the old grottos that used to house everything from
bears to baboons. But in late 2004 these old grottos will house
something even wilder... kids. ISI's Draincore² can be found in the
giant sandbox in "Kid's Cove."
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| Photography: Michael
Barto, Vice President, East Tennessee Geosynthetics.
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| Summary: "Kid's Cove" is a children's play area currently under construction at the Knoxville Zoo. Covering more than 3 acres and costing $3 million plus, "Kid's Cove" is a child size version of our own Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Here children can explore, learn, play and experience what life was like in the cove during the 1800s. There's cabins, barns, vegetable gardens and water falls as well as a rock climbing wall and a giant sandbox for children to play in. ISI's Draincore² was chosen as the drainage layer to be installed under the giant sandbox, and when we say giant, we mean GIANT! "Kid's Cove" is a place where children will be able to pretend they're farmers, zoo keepers or even the little animals they interact with. The Knoxville Zoo is planning to open "Kid's Cove" in late summer 2004. |
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