Community & Environment
Through a range of processes, Jeavons engage and collaborate with children, adults, artists and others to create living environments that become focal points in local communities. Our projects include the outdoor environments of public buildings, churches, libraries and children’s services hubs and natural environments including trails, parkland systems and waterways.
Ardeer planting and art
Community Facilities – Eltham Library & Springvale Services Hub
Eltham Library Courtyard provides an amphitheatre space into the side of a very steep site. This beautifully executed space was designed for Gregory Burgess Architects and Nillumbik Council to complement their heritage-listed library building. Rainwater is revealed through integrated sculptural elements crafted by Nicholas Dunand.
Springvale Integrated Services Hub is one of the first community centres of its kind in Victoria, providing child care, community meeting rooms, a toy library and child health and assessment rooms. Our landscape design includes age appropriate play areas for children’s services plus entry & car parking spaces.
Eltham Library Courtyard provides an amphitheatre space into the side of a very steep site. This beautifully executed space was designed for Gregory Burgess Architects and Nillumbik Council to complement their heritage-listed library building. Rainwater is revealed through integrated sculptural elements crafted by Nicholas Dunand.
Springvale Integrated Services Hub is one of the first community centres of its kind in Victoria, providing child care, community meeting rooms, a toy library and child health and assessment rooms. Our landscape design includes age appropriate play areas for children’s services plus entry & car parking spaces.
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Ardeer Community Park & Playground
This award winning project exemplifies how community processes can be critical to design success. Jeavons interpreted the community’s vision for a vibrant park on a previously contaminated site in one of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged areas. We collaborated with a group of extraordinary local people who raised over $600k in funding, secured council support and assisted with construction. Jeavons were also engaged to prepare a design guide recording the entire project in order to assist other communities to achieve their vision and learn from this project.
This award winning project exemplifies how community processes can be critical to design success. Jeavons interpreted the community’s vision for a vibrant park on a previously contaminated site in one of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged areas. We collaborated with a group of extraordinary local people who raised over $600k in funding, secured council support and assisted with construction. Jeavons were also engaged to prepare a design guide recording the entire project in order to assist other communities to achieve their vision and learn from this project.
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Clifton Hill Railway Project - Ecological Restoration
Jeavons’ design restored locally indigenous flora to the Merri Creek valley following duplication of the rail bridge at Clifton Hill. This complex project exemplifies our approach to environmental restoration. Based on scientific research by the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, this design sought to recreate communities of similar species composition and structure.
Our landscape design addressed local council and Melbourne Water requirements; functional and amenity considerations such as pedestrian and cycle routes, viewpoints, safety & sightlines; as well as maintenance requirements. WSUD components were integrated into the tight valley landscape to reveal the flow of stormwater into the creek.
Jeavons’ design restored locally indigenous flora to the Merri Creek valley following duplication of the rail bridge at Clifton Hill. This complex project exemplifies our approach to environmental restoration. Based on scientific research by the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, this design sought to recreate communities of similar species composition and structure.
Our landscape design addressed local council and Melbourne Water requirements; functional and amenity considerations such as pedestrian and cycle routes, viewpoints, safety & sightlines; as well as maintenance requirements. WSUD components were integrated into the tight valley landscape to reveal the flow of stormwater into the creek.
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