Housing units

A lane people use

Every day, cars swing off the street and residents walk the same strip to their own front door. It's the ground everyone at the block uses, morning and night, wet or dry.

After rain it stays usable. People get out of the car onto dry ground rather than picking a path around standing water, and the surface looks the same in July as it did the week it was poured.

A unit block shared driveway with front doors on it

Garage doors run down one side. Entries sit on the other. No nature strip, no garden bed, so the job fell to the paving itself. Rain hitting the lane goes straight through the slab into the stone base below, away from doors rather than toward them.

We poured the unit block shared driveway, the front paths and the communal areas together, as a single job. It's the busiest ground on the site and it manages a storm without help from a pit or a pipe.

Colour that earns its place

Down the centre of the lane runs a red band, branching once near the far wall, set against a light, speckled base colour. In a run this long and this narrow, plain grey would read as a corridor. The band reads as an address instead.

The band is part of the one pour, not added afterwards as a strip. Flush with the surface. No joints, no lip for a foot to catch on.

No two of these jobs match. Every unit block sits differently on its lot, so every shared driveway gets its own design rather than a repeat of the last one. See more home and unit projects, or look at single-house work on the driveways page.