Architectural landscape and country home nestled in the lush New Zealand hillside
Aevorintha Lessa Studio · Aotearoa New Zealand

Landscape Design for New Zealand Living

We compose gardens attuned to the particular light, coastal winds, and domestic rhythms of New Zealand homes. Our practice bridges architectural form and ecological vitality, shaping outdoor environments that mature with grace and shelter daily family life across the seasons.

Disciplines & Craft

Holistic design shaping how land, shelter, and botanical life converge.

01

Landscape Design

Comprehensive spatial masterplanning harmonising your home’s architecture with topography, natural sightlines, sun orientations, and functional movement.

02

Garden Planning

Meticulous zoning, microclimate assessment, circulation paths, and level transitions crafted to cultivate private outdoor rooms that invite quiet wandering.

03

Outdoor Living Spaces

Sheltered terraces, bespoke timber pergolas, sunken seating wells, and outdoor kitchens built with local stone and enduring native hardwoods.

04

Planting Design

Layered botanical schemes weaving sculptural endemic flora, fragrant shrubs, tussock grasses, and soft perennials adapted to regional soils and maritime winds.

05

Garden Transformations

Sensitive interventions rejuvenating tired ground, challenging steep contours, or uncohesive sections into deeply rooted, unified outdoor sanctuaries.

Transformation Showcase

From challenging terrain into cohesive sanctuaries.

Hillside garden transformation overlooking the rolling Tauranga landscape

The Tauranga Escarpment Garden

Complete Terrain Transformation
Sheltered courtyard garden transformation with stone retaining walls and native fern planting

Waiheke Stone Courtyard

Courtyard & Living
Structured concrete planters and layered native planting in an architectural garden

Takapuna Botanical Pavilions

Planting Architecture
Outdoor living room terrace connected seamlessly to lawn and mature native shrubs

Matakana Verandah & Meadow

Outdoor Living & Meadow
Begin A Collaboration

Discuss Your Garden

Whether you are considering a complete rural masterplan or the considered refinement of an established coastal courtyard, we welcome the opportunity to listen and explore what is possible.