Brisbane & Southeast Queensland
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Packard Landscapes is a meticulous, state-of-the-art, full-service landscaping company that strives for excellence in the design, building, installation, and management of creative custom landscape environments. We are new in Queensland but have many years experience in the design and construction of gardens in North America and Argentina. Our deep and diverse capabilities enable us to take care of every detail related to the creation and management of your landscaping projects, reflecting your individual style and taste.Our Values
Landscape provides the fundamental support system for life on earth. Our living environment reflects human habits of consumption and waste, and historic attitudes towards the landscape have resulted in its currently degraded condition. Our attitude to the landscape shapes the wider environment in physical, economic, social and cultural terms.
Packard Landscapes subscribes to the Australian Landscape Principles which articulate an ethical decision-making framework for landscape planning, design
and management within the built environment. Their purpose is to strategically direct landscape interventions—both in our existing and future
built environments—towards more sustainable, holistic outcomes. We have reproduced AIPA's principles in which we share.
VALUE OUR LANDSCAPE
The quality of the landscape underpins the viability of life on earth. Regardless of scale, every landscape embodies a range of complex, multidimensional and interdependent values—and these values must be comprehensively articulated before they can be accurately assessed. Design and management strategies must acknowledge the interrelated (physical, socio-cultural and economic) knowledge systems and processes involved in landscape decision-making, and the critical importance of collaborative approaches to sustainable landscape outcomes. Detailed, inclusive and creative landscape assessment is the primary tool for sustainable landscape management.PROTECT --- ENHANCE --- REGENERATE
The hierarchy of decision-making for any landscape design/intervention should incorporate innovative, measurable strategies to: * protect existing environmental features and ecosystems * enhance existing resources in a creative, sustainable manner * regenerate lost or damaged ecosystem servicesDESIGN WITH RESPECT
All values of landscape deserve respect, and should be given equal consideration when design/intervention is proposed. Intervene with respect for existing context—work with nature and culture to implement design solutions that are measurably responsive to existing environmental, socio-cultural and economic conditions, and which demonstrate respect for local, regional and global context.DESIGN FOR THE FUTURE
Design with regard to the possibility of future change. Accept the moral and ethical responsibility of adopting decision making processes which enhance resilience in terms of environmental, socio-cultural and economic outcomes for future generations.EMBRACE RESPONSIVE DESIGN
Our knowledge of natural and cultural environmental processes is incomplete,
and the full potential significance or value of the landscape remains unknown
because of this uncertain state of knowledge.
Design processes should be consistently innovative, adaptable and
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