The National Elephant Center (TNEC) was a major elephant breeding, training and research center. As an AZA-affiliated institution, the large campus provided a home for elephants from zoos that were unable to maintain the extensive spaces and high cost of evolving standards of responsible pachyderm care. CLR provided the Concept Design, Schematic Design, and similar services pro bono for this project. For a variety of reasons unrelated to design, the Center is no longer open. But the design challenges enabled CLR to coalesce several key ideas in cutting-edge elephant care that were realized in later elephant projects worldwide.
