Creative, Progressive, Inventive and Cohesive SLS Designs is a vibrant design practice with offices in Melbourne and India. Originally established in 2001 as Shri Architects in India, SLS Designs is now a Melbourne based practice specialising in landscape architectural, urban design and master planning services.

At SLS Designs we strive to:

• Contribute to the community by enriching the built environment and respecting the natural environment
• Value, respect and respond to the needs of our clients whilst continually improving our services
• Collaborate with and learn from other designers
• Actively support the continual education and training of design professionals

Our design platform provides a solid foundation for the realisation of exceptional design solutions. In every commission we aim to:

• Adopt an interrogative approach in the creation of lasting and relevant designs
• Challenge perceptions and attitudes of how we use and inhabit space
• Create a living environment underwritten by ESD principles
• Ensure spaces are inherently flexible, comfortable and responsive to context
• Celebrate the life lived outdoors
• Integrate landscape and architecture

SLS Designs design platform is founded upon the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD). This methodology includes the following planning and design initiatives:

• Design for site specific climate,
• The generous provision of life giving elements,
• Use of locally available materials and life cycle assessment on materials used and
• Use of water sensitive urban design principles and integrated urban stormwater management systems.

SLS Designs adopts a progressive attitude to ESD techniques and initiatives and as such is committed to innovative site-specific solutions and to consistently monitoring developments in ESD research and development globally