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Location: Harrisons Rd, Red Hill
Client: Private
Scope: Landscape Design & Project Management
Completed: 2016

On this extensive Mornington Peninsula Property, Barber has combined traditional formality, sweeping drifts of planting, perennial gardens and recreation facilities, while gracefully moving between styles and form. Levels and other landscape mechanisms were used to easily transition between zones.

The Client had begun earthmoving, locating dams and walls without a proper landscape plan, so they needed their own ideas articulated and organised, with new ideas to tie the property together.

Barber gave the house surrounds a formal, structured layout and planting theme with parterre gardens and a 25-metre reflection pond. Extensive stonewalls and sawn bluestone paving, juxtaposed with local gravel, articulate and separate the spaces.

Avenues of flowering apples and strings of blossoming pears draw you to the vast drifts of mass mono plantings. Accent trees punctuate the subtle gradation of colour, texture and movement. Between the golf greens, lake, croquet lawn, tennis court and lap pool, a playground has been created. All of which are cohesively drawn together within the garden.

Photography: Scott Newett

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Barber is a Melbourne-based Landscape Architecture Practice. Founded in 2002 by Sam Barber, the studio is renowned for its thoughtful, gentle and pragmatic approach to landscape design.

Refined yet congenial, Sam and his multi-disciplinary team connect clients and the architecture they inhabit to the natural world through crafted experiences grounded in wellbeing, balance and ease.

Barber’s spaces are characterised by a commitment to provenance, proportion and cohesion, where architecture and landscaping are a seamless and symbiotic expression. By listening and learning deeply, to both the site and the client, Barber creates intuitive and connective spaces, that balance rigour with joy and evolve naturally rather than forcefully.

Barber works with both private clients and architects and is well-versed in large, multi-residential and public realm projects, as well as private residences large and small.

We see every project as an opportunity to contribute positively and generously to our client’s way of life.

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