The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing addresses a complex ecological challenge at an extraordinary scale. But explaining habitat connectivity, wildlife movement, and living infrastructure to a broad audience can be just as important as designing the crossing itself.

Rock imagined a different way to tell that story: through LEGO bricks. The familiar medium offered a playful, accessible way to translate a sophisticated landscape project into something people of all ages could understand and explore.

Created in collaboration with LEGO artist Martin Egemo, also known as TMX Brick Notes, the model reinterprets the Wildlife Crossing at miniature scale. Landscape, infrastructure, vegetation, and carefully selected wildlife minifigures work together to communicate how the real crossing reconnects habitat divided by the 101 Freeway.

The project was developed by Rock while at Living Habitats as an entry for the 2023 LEGO Ideas® competition.

By reducing an enormous piece of ecological infrastructure to something tactile and familiar, the model makes the underlying idea easier to grasp: landscapes can be reconnected, and infrastructure can be designed for more than one species.

Although the competition has concluded, the project remains an example of how design communication can become part of the design process itself—using curiosity, creativity, and play to build understanding around serious environmental challenges.