AILA and the Climate Change Adaptation Skills for Professionals Program

RESIDENTIAL

STRADBROKE DOMAIN

Redevelopment of a subtropical island holiday resort, integrating new buildings within an existing coastal bush landscape.

Landscape Principles in Practice:

Value Our Landscape: Design responds to physical, social and cultural characteristics of the local landscape, using environmentally respectful processes and management strategies to enhance the economic and environmental functionality of the site.
Protect – Enhance – Regenerate: Design & management ethic based on revealing and enhancing existing landscape values to support new market needs for ‘luxury destination’ character without compromising existing ecosystem integrity.
Design with Respect: Innovative use of all-indigenous planting in a ‘resort’ context, including techniques for retention of existing mature trees within close proximity to new buildings during construction phase. Sustainability principles employed in materials selection and maintenance, stormwater design and revegetation strategies.
Design for the Future: Design proposes new ways of approaching high-intervention landscapes such as holiday resorts to enhance environmental resilience.
Embrace Responsive Design: Collaborative approaches to landscape design and management enhance potential for innovation and creativity.