Urban, Community & Environmental Landscape Architecture & Design
Over many years the Jeavons team have worked on a wide range of unique projects. These bring together our landscape consultant skills, our knowledge of children’s play, recreation, access and inclusion, our collaboration skills, our experience with sustainable landscape architecture, and our planting design expertise.
Play at Zoos Victoria
Jeavons have collaborated with architects, interpretations designers, and experts at both Melbourne and Werribee Zoo to create playful learning experiences aimed at children and their families. Growing Wild at Melbourne Zoo invites children to play alongside meerkats and other animals that live in or on the ground. At Monkey Play in Werribee, children imitate the monkeys on a Jeavons landscape design firm’s climbing structure outside the exhibit.
Tidal River Open Space Project
This is a long running project designing a new, focal social, gathering, and play space at Tidal River, in the iconic Wilsons Promontory National Park.
Children’s Bike Tracks, Bangkok Airport, Thailand
Bangkok airport has an unusual cycling facility around its perimeter. Following the initial construction of a 25km circuit for adults, Jeavons and their consultant team were invited to design a new children’s BMX circuit. This has been constructed and was opened by the King of Thailand in 2018. It has since been followed by an additional facility designed with input from Jeavons, of a pump track and adventure track for younger children.
Clifton Hill Railway Bridge Duplication and Creek Revegetation
When this railway line was duplicated, the new bridge work required major reconstruction, revegetation, and landscaping architect services for the Merri Creek and surrounds in Clifton Hill. Jeavons Landscape Architects collaborated with a large team of consultants working with both State and Local government, and railway authorities to design a new section of the Capital City Bike Trail, areas for play and recreation under the bridge, various pedestrian railway crossings, and a revegetation plan to reinstate the indigenous vegetation of the Merri Creek.
