Set within the evolving campus of Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School, this landscape project transforms a steeply sloping site into a series of connected outdoor learning and social spaces. Working in collaboration with Jackson Architecture—long-term partners to the school across multiple campus developments  —the design responds to both the architectural form and the school’s commitment to contemporary education environments.

The landscape is structured as a terraced sequence, integrating amphitheatre seating, accessible ramps and stepped pathways that negotiate significant level changes while encouraging informal gathering and movement. Granite block retaining walls and integrated seating elements define spaces and provide robust, tactile edges suited to daily student use. A restrained palette of materials—including crushed granite, concrete paving and softfall surfaces—supports durability while reinforcing a cohesive campus identity.

Planting is predominantly native and climate-responsive, combining canopy trees such as Angophora costata and Acacia implexa with resilient understorey species including Lomandra and Dianella. This layered approach enhances shade, biodiversity and seasonal variation, while framing views across the site.

Together, the landscape creates a flexible outdoor environment that supports play, learning and social interaction—extending the school’s teaching spaces beyond the classroom and embedding them within a richly planted, connected campus setting.