About - SPACELAB

OUR MISSION

“Aspirational urban design for a sustainable future.”

WHO WE ARE

SPACELAB is a team of diversely skilled design professionals, qualified across a wide range of disciplines and technical skills. Our light filled studio in Turner enjoys a leafy urban outlook here in the centre of Canberra.

SPACELAB's interactive environment nurtures the energy and enthusiasm of our entire project team of urban designers, statutory and feasibility planners, landscape architects and conceptual artists to push boundaries and challenge the norm in the pursuit of exemplary outcomes for our clients and the future residents of the spaces and places we create.

We uncover and realise a site’s potential working around and through planning and legislative obstacles to deliver high quality projects.

In our pursuit of design lead development, we challenge ingrained process and conflict between policy areas to find workable pathways to benefit the people who will live there.

Our foundation of experience spans decades. Our focus is on the future.

WHAT WE DO

Planning

The SPACELAB team have decades of experience in formulating planning solutions in what can be a complex process. We deliver clear and timely advice in order to get the best outcomes for our clients. Our enduring success in delivering on large and small residential, commercial, education, community and industrial planning projects is testament to our skill and approach.

Statutory & Strategic Planning
Master Planning
Planning Assessments
Development Applications
Lease Variations
Feasibility Studies

Landscape Architecture

SPACELAB offers comprehensive landscape architecture services that integrate environmental sensitivity, functionality, and strong design outcomes across a wide range of project scales. Their work includes the planning and detailed design of parks, open spaces, wetlands, and recreational areas, with a focus on creating landscapes that are both visually compelling and highly usable.

Concept Design
Public Space Design
Planting Design
Construction Documentation
Residential/Commercial Landscapes
Detailed Design

Urban Design

SPACELAB provides integrated urban design services focused on shaping high-quality, functional, and enduring built environments. Our approach spans master planning and concept design for projects ranging from individual sites to entire new communities, with a strong emphasis on placemaking, spatial quality, and long-term liveability.

Urban Design & Planning
3D Modelling
Placemaking
Concept Plans
Greenfield Developments
Brownfield Developments

Lead Consultant Services

SPACELAB provides lead consultant services managing project delivery and overseeing and coordinating multidisciplinary consultant teams from project inception through to completion. SPACELAB manages the integration of urban design, planning, landscape architecture, and engineering inputs, ensuring that all disciplines align with the overall project vision and objectives.

Feasibility Studies
Project Management
Project Design Coordination
Consultant Management
Concept Development
Authority Liaison

WHY WE DO IT

SPACELAB pursues leading edge design outcomes. We challenge policy and processes because advocating for a better design is aspirational and purposeful.

Our analysis of past projects has shown that the most profitable outcome is also very likely the best design outcome, because great design intrinsically is the most desirable and most valuable outcome. Investment in great design is a small investment that reaps rewards for the life of a project.

Our passion and energy are reflected within the design of new

communities that form the structure for development that houses many thousands of people. These communities are interlaced with hundreds of hectares of parks, community facilities, wetlands, playgrounds and walking trails. We create timeless places of varying scale for the benefit of people seeking a peaceful place or a place to gather.

We love to work collaboratively with forward thinking clients and their consultant teams of architects, engineers and specialist consultants to design and realise every project we participate in. Each project we influence reinforces our positive appreciation for the continuing growth, urbanisation and renewal of urban places and spaces.

AFFILIATIONS

AILA

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) leads a dynamic and respected profession creating great places to support heathy communites and a sustainable planet.

PIA

The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) is the peak body representing planning and the urban and regional planning profession.

PCA

The Property Council of Australia (PCA) is the voice of the Australian property industry, championing a strong, thriving sector that leave a positive legacy for all Australians.

CERTIFICATION

QUALITY SYSTEMS ASSURANCE & ACT GOVERNMENT PREQUALIFICATION

SPACELAB holds a Certificate of Conformity, certifying we have Quality Management Systems complying with the requirements of the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems requirements and are ACT Government Prequalified to CLA and CS. We operate under sound office policies and procedures.

SPACELAB holds ACT certification in:

Quality Management System
OHS&R and Environmental Management Systems
ACT Government Prequalified to CLA being for Landscape Architectural Design Services consisting of Design and Documentation; and CS being for Consultant of Study Services