Duncan’s approach to design includes making natural systems and ecologies a significant part of the basis of a project where possible. He has completed a number of projects where even formal plantings have the possibility of habitat provision. All projects involving waterfront and riparian corridors have a strong component of natural area design and management.
Careful research into the local and regional ecosystems, plant communities and habitat potentials, along with appropriate methodologies for weed removal are developed to enhance the natural qualities of each site that requires natural area management.
The steeply graded 5 hectare Stage 14B Phase One of Riverstone Crossing is illustrated here. It was heavily infested with almost all the major noxious and environmental weeds all the way down to the Coomera River. The Open Space Management Plan delivered an approach that saw all the weeds treated and the site and the Gold Coast City Council, who took posession of the land, nominate the works as a new benchmark standard for revegetation and rehabilitation. This was one of ten areas on the development subject to the same treatment.
Careful research into the local and regional ecosystems, plant communities and habitat potentials, along with appropriate methodologies for weed removal are developed to enhance the natural qualities of each site that requires natural area management.
The steeply graded 5 hectare Stage 14B Phase One of Riverstone Crossing is illustrated here. It was heavily infested with almost all the major noxious and environmental weeds all the way down to the Coomera River. The Open Space Management Plan delivered an approach that saw all the weeds treated and the site and the Gold Coast City Council, who took posession of the land, nominate the works as a new benchmark standard for revegetation and rehabilitation. This was one of ten areas on the development subject to the same treatment.