Electric vehicles and landscape design meet for Air NZ
Greenwood Associates provided current design initiatives for New Zealand Auckland Airport Campus. Our brief was broken into three main components; a new entranceway to tie the landscape in with the new architectural design, an outdoor courtyard where staff and visitors could spend time outdoors and a boardwalk for safe access to the car park and allow provision for charging an ever growing fleet of electric vehicles. We applied a simple, low maintenance native under planting design across the site with hedges screening exposed building services. Pruned Sophora microphylla (kowhai) feature trees complete the native theme and provide a splash of colour against the black building facade when in flower. Durable, modern outdoor furniture in white GRC and hardwood finishes off the space and provides a contrast in materials to the honed concrete ground plain whilst tying the car park boardwalk through to the main space.