Our Design Values
At Urban Landscape Projects (ULP), we believe school landscapes should do more than provide play and open spaces – they should be dynamic environments that inspire learning, play, and community connection. Since 1990, we have worked with schools across NSW and QLD to create award-winning educational landscapes that balance creativity, safety, sustainability, and durability.
Our school designs are suburban sanctuaries for learning and play – places where children can explore, experiment, and grow. We are mindful of the five senses, ensuring students can touch, smell, listen, observe, and engage with the natural world in meaningful ways.
By embedding natural play, gardens, outdoor classrooms, and sustainability practices in schools, our school landscapes become “learning landscapes” that support education for multiple generations.
Our school designs are suburban sanctuaries for learning and play – places where children can explore, experiment, and grow. We are mindful of the five senses, ensuring students can touch, smell, listen, observe, and engage with the natural world in meaningful ways.
By embedding natural play, gardens, outdoor classrooms, and sustainability practices in schools, our school landscapes become “learning landscapes” that support education for multiple generations.
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Award-Winning design expertise for Schools
or over 30 years, the design team at ULP has been delivering award-winning school landscapes that inspire and engage. Their expertise supports schools by addressing key elements critical to success:
- Passionate Team – Dedicated professionals with decades of experience in school design.
- Community Focus – Designs co-created with educators, parents, and students for meaningful outcomes.
- Student-Centered Design – Play and learning spaces tailored to how children engage with their environment.
- Safety & Compliance – Full adherence to Australian safety standards and departmental guidelines.
- High-Quality Documentation – Comprehensive design documentation for accurate implementation.
- Practical and Buildable Outcomes – Every design is created with construction feasibility in mind.
Capturing Student Voice with our Junior Design Workshop
One of the most powerful aspects of our school design process is the Junior Design Workshop. This workshop invites a group of students to participate directly in the design process, giving them an authentic voice in shaping their own environment.
- Student voice matters – Students are the primary users of school landscapes. Engaging them ensures designs reflect how they want to learn, play, and discuss.
- Interactive process – Through drawing, mapping, and dialogue, students share their ideas, priorities, and create visions suited to their needs.
- Community activation – When students see their input shaping the design, it creates excitement and ownership across the whole school community.
- Better outcomes – Capturing student voice means assessing meaningful, relevant, and embraced by the community, ensuring long-term success.
The Junior Design Workshop is a fun, collaborative process that activates the community and ensures the final design delivers what the school truly needs.
Design Delivery Team
George Adams
Company Director / Design Director
Milva Petrini
Design Manager
Oliver Reeve
Landscape Designer
Felix Affable
Landscape Designer
Alyzza Surio
Landscape Arch.
Our projects are designed by qualified Landscape Architects and Designers with specialist knowledge of schools, childcare centres, and public environments. Their expertise blends creative vision with technical rigour, ensuring landscapes are inspiring, practical, and enduring.
- Experience since 1990 – over three decades of educational and community design work.
- Award-winning team – recognised with multiple state and national awards.
- Fully insured – including $20M Public Liability, $5M Professional Indemnity, and Workers’ Compensation coverage.
- With proven expertise, industry recognition, and full professional cover, our design team delivers landscapes that are both innovative and dependable.
The ULP Design Promise
Every ULP design is creative, functional, safe, and realistic. By working closely with our construction team, we ensure that every plan can be delivered efficiently, on time, and to the highest standard.
Our landscape plans are not cataloque sections or hand drawings – they are professional, achitecturally drawn plans. They are carefully considered buildable visions that create compliant spaces of lasting value for children, educators and communities
Our landscape plans are not cataloque sections or hand drawings – they are professional, achitecturally drawn plans. They are carefully considered buildable visions that create compliant spaces of lasting value for children, educators and communities
The Benefits of a Landscape Design and COnstruction Package for Schools
The most effective outcomes for schools happen when ULP manages both design and construction from start to finish.
From the Design Perspective:
Designers work collaboratively with builders to ensure plans are costed accurately, compliant, and constructible. Because the design team stays involved during construction, the original vision is maintained and problems are solved quickly.
From the Construction Perspective:
Builders benefit from direct access to the design team, ensuring clarity and quick resolutions to questions. With design and construction under one roof, there’s less miscommunication, faster decision-making, and fewer unexpected changes.
Why it matters for schools:
From the Design Perspective:
Designers work collaboratively with builders to ensure plans are costed accurately, compliant, and constructible. Because the design team stays involved during construction, the original vision is maintained and problems are solved quickly.
From the Construction Perspective:
Builders benefit from direct access to the design team, ensuring clarity and quick resolutions to questions. With design and construction under one roof, there’s less miscommunication, faster decision-making, and fewer unexpected changes.
Why it matters for schools:
- Fewer disruptions – A streamlined process saves time and reduces delays.
- Cost certainty – Budgets are realistic and set from the beginning.
- True accountability – one team owns the whole proicess, from concept to completion.
- Student-focused outcomes – with design oversight during construction, the end result truly reflects the school's needs and vision.
- Experience matters – draw on our decades of experience constructing School landscapes
- Professional, qualified construction – Do they compare with ULP? We guarantee our services. Other contractors may be unqualified, unisured, or lack the experience required to give your School the result it deserves.
This turnkey solution makes the process smoother, faster, accountable or reliable. “We make it easy”