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Modernist Urban Planning meets Minimalist Suburban Nostalgia

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Oh yeah. …is my new thing.

Melbourne suburban landscape setting

Modernist Urban Planning meets Minimalist Suburban Nostalgia – It’s my new design approach, I should think of a shorter name. (M.U.P.m.M.S.N. ?)

I’ve shown this image before, now if only there was some grasspave… a nice big expanse, some ornamental grasses… a nice big expanse or at least the impression of one.

Rightly put the name should probably continue – also meets open or wild landscape setting meets ancient Japanese aesthetic meets…meets Jeffery Smart…meets… (there’s a few more influences at the party.)

The approach is bridging the sense of space, scale and geometry of urban planning (including parks, freeways and major institutional architecture – traditional and contemporary) with textural aesthetic characteristics distilled from suburban nostalgic settings (through which I am constantly driving, settings with leftover, somewhat anachronistic design elements from the 50’s through 70’s and co.).

All this aesthetic and stylistic hybridization results in an understated use of materials, a sensitivity in use of colour, an integration of linear and architectural qualities across the more usually segregated aesthetics of hard landscaping and plant design – purposefully contrasted by underlying geometric, spatial qualities and scale relationships that act to counterbalance and contain finer plant and material textures present on various scales.


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