Housing and Multiple Dwelling Archives - John Mongard Landscape Architects

Brolga Lakes

Brolga Lakes seeks to break the pattern of unsustainable suburban growth by providing low carbon footprint homes with communal facilities for waste, water, power and food. Brolga Lakes is a village set in lakes, an ecological place connected to nature and connecting its people. Brolga Lakes seeks to reform the way we live in the edges of our cities; creating a self-supported peri-urban neighbourhood. The conservation land comprising valued wetlands, has been donated to Birdlife Australia through an enduring covenant which will revegetate adjacent cleared land to create an outstanding environmental setting and a national centre for bird research.

Mooloolaba Town Centre

A $2 million upgrade was project managed, designed and documented in a fast-track process for Queensland’s most popular picnic spot. The park and beachfront focus on a plaza shaped like a boat, in recognition of the town’s nautical past. Custom furniture and signage have been designed and the project includes twelve public artworks.

The Ecovillage at Currumbin

The Ecovillage at Currumbin was first conceptualised by John Mongard Landscape Architects (JMLA) in 1999. The concept plan, planning precincts and building/landscape codes were prepared as part of the development approval plans by JMLA in collaboration with others in 2002. The Ecovillage has become a model for sustainable development in Australia, having won over 30 […]

Jerrabomberra New Town, Canberra

Despite its initial visionary plans, Canberra over time has become a low density city lacking vibrancy and mixed-use centres. It has not fulfilled the contemporary goals of a city combining work, live and play with a low carbon footprint. A series of collaborative design workshops with experts and scientists led to a strategy for an […]

Caral Eco Village

Disused cane farms adjacent to a village are converted into a project for an ecovillage where work, live and play can combine in new ways. Greenways provide food gardens and communal facilities incorporate a men’s shed and a boat shed, adjacent to an infrastructure centre for the village.

Bingara Town Strategy

The Bingara Town Strategy shows how a resourceful community can regenerate itself and become more resilient and self-sustainable in an increasingly unstable global climate and in uncertain economic times. The Bingara Town Strategy and The Living Classroom are renewal projects to clean and direct the town’s overland water, and to regenerate the commons into productive organic farming to feed the town. The Village Infill Renewal Plans are a series of Council owned lands being pro-actively developed for affordable and alternative housing options to keep and encourage people to live in Bingara. A town energy plan is gradually converting all public buildings to solar, and the town plans to build a solar array to run all power in the long term. Trade training hubs have been built to provide work and training for young people.

Cowes Activity Centre Plan

Cowes on Phillip Island is a major tourism destination within the region, however the town lacks civic and foreshore spaces of quality and its vibrancy falls away in the colder months. We collaborated with MR Cagney on an Activity Centre Plan for the town which addresses planning codes as well as provides a blueprint for […]

Kelvin Grove Urban Village

The centre of the village is a major mixed-use precinct with 220 apartments, and a substantial podium landscape over a shopping centre. Landscape architecture for the precinct included streetscapes, parks, pools and entries. The podium garden has over 100 advanced trees and palms which create a lush, subtropical setting. In other parts of the village, […]