Kelly Royle Landscape Architecture

Kelly has practiced experience in the ability to develop, express, and implement considered, innovative, design solutions incorporating the clients' objectives with best practice outcomes.

Kelly Royle
Masters in Landscape Architecture
Bachelor of Fine Arts

About
Kelly is a qualified landscape architect with a passion for design, creating ecologically sustainable environments for people in public and private environments. Challenging new ways of thinking about green infrastructure and engaging people to connect with outdoor spaces and living.

Environmental and Sustainability
The best practice is valued, incorporating ecological and sustainability principles and initiatives. Each design includes these values, minimising environmental impacts, incorporating local climate sensitivities,  water sensitive design and appropriate planting selection, assessing and planning the ecological health and sustainability of your site.

AILA
Member of Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

We seek to understand your vision for your outdoor and garden spaces, exploring your ideas for the future of your outdoor space. Engaging a landscape architect enables you to see the possibilities and inspire your vision. The design process is collaborative and personalised to achieve your objectives.

Initial consultation
The initial consultation is an opportunity to meet on-site and discuss your objectives, budget, and time frame and discuss the processes involved when engaging a landscape architect. The consultation will help you decide your objectives and agreed approach.

The process
During the initial consultation and brief will be discussed and will inform the design direction. Once agreed on the level of engagement the process can proceed through the design phases, drafting, and documentation, construction, landscaping to completion.

Offering a range of landscape architectural services enables you to assess your landscape design requirements.

Services

• Landscape architecture and design
• Design development, plan, and construction documentation
• Revegetation and sustainability
• Contract administration – guide your project through the construction phases

Types of projects

• Outdoor living spaces
• Courtyards & balconies
• Wall gardens
• Garden design & planting schemes
• Residential development – Vegetation reports, landscape design, and plans for submission to council
• New builds – landscape design and for plans submission to council
• Working with architects to integrate the landscape design into the overall plan

Working in the commercial sector to meet development objectives, creating sustainable and economically viable outdoor spaces, whilst considering the environmental and social outcomes. From detailed site analysis and research, planning the site’s potential, environmental and sustainability impact, and revegetation, all in collaborating with key stakeholders and the community.

Services

• Concept design
• Design development
• Site analysis
• Planning
• Research
• Signage/wayfinding

Types of projects

• Education campuses
• Signage and wayfinding
• Water sensitive urban design
• Revegetation
• Environmental and sustainable infrastructure
• Parks and open space planning and design

Residential development
Creating landscape design that adds value to the development, complementing the architecture, and meeting local council regulations.

Services

• Site analysis
• Vegetation reports
• Concept landscape design
• Design development & documentation

Education

• University campuses
• Courtyards that are designed to create an outdoor space for recreation.

Connecting with nature and the outdoor environment is not only good for your health it is a necessary life force. Therapy gardens are an interaction between people, plants, and gardens to assist in recovery or development, in improving social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being.

AGED CARE

• Therapy garden – Dementia
  For aged-care facilities and dementia patients, this garden is designed to ignite the senses and provide therapy, activities, and a sense of wellbeing.
  The design elements included are sustainability, orientation, accessibility, socialisation, meaningful activity, reminiscence, sensory stimulation, and safety.
• Sensory garden
  A combination of garden elements, hard surfaces, structures, plants, and planting schemes designed to stimulate the five senses – taste, sight, sound, smell, and touch.

AUTISM

For children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Gardens are designed to enhance therapy in addressing sensory sensitivities, motor skills, social interaction, and communication.