Urban Design plays a pivotal role in shaping urban form and spaces.
At the heart of our approach is a commitment to good design. As leaders of Urban Design in Victoria, we see ourselves as facilitators, applying our understanding of various stakeholder interests to create practical and imaginative solutions that work.
Over the past two decades, our Urban Designers have led strategic master planning, design advisory, expert evidence, and capacity-building projects across both the private and public sectors that have activated, connected, and inspired societies.
Constanza is a Registered Landscape Architect with over a ten years of experience in a range of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture projects, practicing her multi-disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, art, landscape architecture, and urban design. Her experience spans both public and private sector projects, having worked locally and internationally in diverse scales and contexts.
Her design approach responds to elements from the natural environment, local ecologies and cultures, informed by research, collaboration and observation. Currently Constanza is undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne, focusing on cultural landscapes, participatory design by exploring creative methods. In doing this, she is bringing together design, research, and her own creative practice.
Constanza has expanded her design knowledge by participating in academic programs, international workshops and conferences in various countries including Chile, Barcelona, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, Singapore, Oslo, and Naarm/ Melbourne. This has framed a cross-cultural perspective, which has been developed through studying, teaching and working.
At Hansen, Constanza has contributed to a variety of urban design and landscape architecture projects, such as the award-wining ‘Streets for People Feasibility Study’ and ‘Sapa & Surrounds Sustainable Urban & Infrastructure Development Project’, as well as many others including streetscape upgrades, framework plans, concept and schematic designs, master plans, 3D modelling, design guidelines, and artist impressions. Her work contributes that each project is creative and contextually responsive.