How to prevent an Axis from overtaking the MATLAB GUI when zooming

Hello,

I am currently developing a GUI in MATLAB and am trying to use the preset zoom and rotate functions in the toolbar. Currently, I am working with a simple GUIDE, developed in the first exercise tutorial. My issue is that when zooming in, the plot starts to overtake the entire GUI. To solve the problem I have tried to create the axis as a child of a panel:

function uipanel1_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to uipanel1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    empty - handles not created until after all CreateFcns called
handles.axes1 = axes('parent',hObject);
guidata(hObject,handles);

Hoping that the axis would be confined to the panel, but this is not the case.

I have not had any luck finding other solutions to this problem. I am using MATLAB R2013a. Have any of you encountered a similar problem? Is there a solution to this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated.