Suburban development is normally distant from the landscapes that produce our food. The Green Hub recycles wasted land and creates a productive food garden in a new suburb. Orchards, bushtucker parklands as well as intensive vegetable growing areas are provided, complete with compost areas, sheds and shelters. A series of community workshops led to the […]
Read moreCommunity consultation ‘set-up shop’ engagements were held in each of the bayside villages in vacant shops and in parks. Four village masterplans were enacted over a period of ten years. Waterfront and streetscape improvement plans were undertaken at Torquay and Scarness, including the refurbishment of piers. In Pialba, a three- kilometer section of disused railway […]
Read moreDisused 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAn award winning house was constructed on the side of a waterway in inner-city Brisbane. The gardens dramatize the gully landscape as well as solve drainage and access problems around the home. A series of terraced gardens feature turkey-proof food growing areas.
Read moreDesign of a kilometre of destination parklands, including a regional skate facility, harbor side boardwalks and a beach square. Community engagement from footpath surveys and village hall workshops led to a mobility and public space strategy to link five disparate retail areas using a waterfront bikeway. A series of green crossing points act as traffic […]
Read moreKingaroy is the heart of an agricultural region focused on peanuts, grains and vineyards. It featured a large town centre which had dissipated over time due to fringe activity, with the centre requiring new energy and visitation. Community planning and masterplanning focused around the town’s cultural precinct, incorporating an information centre, art gallery and history […]
Read moreA unique garden which highlights subtropical Queensland. The unusual approaches and level changes to the garden provided opportunity to create mystery and reveal views along the journey. Plantings are designed to dramatize view-points and to reveal the borrowed landscape of West End. A pool, courtyard and various pavilions were renovated. Garden plantings are inspired by […]
Read moreCowes 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 […]
Read moreA large riverside house was refurbished to provide new gardens, a tennis court, pool and a series of arbors which wrap around the home and provide places to sit and gather. Artworks adorn the gardens, which also feature a productive garden and a towering stand of illuminated Eucalypts at its entry. A green wall and […]
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