Design-Build
Flat Bush, Manukau City

• Including hard and soft works.
• We employed our integrated landscape management (ILM) model to design and construct 4 stages of this urban multi-story retirement village.
• Client was “stunned” by value and amount of landscape delivered by Natural Habitats.
• We were engaged to team up with the architects to produce a high quality landscape within tight budget constraints.
• The landscape design accommodates bowls, petanque, outdoor chess, vegetable gardens, fruit trees and children’s play.

Summerset Manukau is one of the largest villages in NZ Summerset Retirement portfolio. We shared our client’s vision to create a new direction and approach in the landscaping of retirement villages.

Situated adjacent to Barry Curtis Park, the Village shares certain park-like qualities in its landscape. The European flavour of the buildings is transferred to the landscape, where the design encourages residents to use and enjoy the outdoor spaces and recreational opportunities to keep them feeling young and healthy.

Foliage combinations give year round interest and variety with seasonal bursts of colour; moreover the green calmness in the streetscape almost disguises the fact that roads are present.