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Our Urban Designers know a sense of community comes through unique and innovative design. Living and working in the places they create, they understand the complex environmental, social and economic factors that play a vital part in creating our communities.
Imagination and ‘new urbanism’ principles shape our designs. In order to create places for people to live work and play, our designers look at walkability, connectivity, mixed-use and diversity, mixed housing, traditional neighbourhood structure, increased density, smart transportation, sustainability and quality of life.
These elements are what make a project marketable and increases the buy-in from authorities – a combination of design with Urban Economics, Environment, and Landscape Architecture to create communities that are economically, socially and environmentally viable.
THG’s designers have experience in:
Situated in the Caboolture district of the idyllic Moreton Bay region north of Brisbane, eco-librium Narangba is a 606-lot integrated urban development that aims to strike a balance between the needs of the community and nature.
The Caboolture Local Government Area (LGA) continues to be one of the fastest growing LGAs in Queensland. The proximity to Brisbane and other regional centres, coupled with the region’s diversity, relaxed lifestyle, superb climate and affordable cost of living is attracting significant numbers of new residents. In 2006, 134,820 people lived in the Caboolture LGA; by 2016, it is estimated the population will grow over 30% to more than 174,000 residents (Department of Infrastructure and Planning, 2007).
Eco-librium has ensured that while the highest quality ecological features of the site have been retained in the Urban Ecological Corridor (UEC), opportunities for residential housing for various levels of the market has been provided.
Westwood is a $600 million joint venture between international residential developer Urban Pacific Limited and the State Government’s Department of Families and Communities, in conjunction with the City of Port Adelaide and City of Charles Sturt.
Understanding how people live, work and play was crucial for the success of the Avoca Lakes project. In order to bring to life the vision for the project, creating a high-quality development with a natural spring as the focal point, we had to look at how design could influence the behaviours of the residents.
The proximity of this project to a railway station meant that the client came to THG with a challenge – it has to be high density, but it has to have an aesthetic sense of community.
THG’s work on projects at Gorlicks Road, Eagleby and Bethania Relocatable Home Parks presented a unique challenge – how do you give a space a sense of permanency when the structures that line the streets are not?
