Professional Portfolio
2019-2025 | Luana Balzano
Apartment
SELECTED PROJECTS
Design
Patrick Freehill Heritage & Hospitality
Living Museum & Healing Centre
Mixed use community-led project
John McAslan + Partners
LEGEND
REMOVED WALLS
REMOVED WALL FINISH
REMOVED FIXTURES/ FITTINGS/DOORS
Apartment in Via Valle Corteno Residential
The objective of this renovation was to transform a family-owned two-bedrooms apartment into a three-bedrooms and three-bathrooms investment property to rent out in the near future.
In accordance with the design constraints outlined in the brief, the existing apartment layout and some existing features were preserved; while a few selected areas were altered to maximise usable space, improve circulation and enhance functionality. In addition to general building services and elements upgrades, the renovation works included the complete refurbishment of the bathrooms, the design of a brand new kitchen and new lighting.
Location: Rome, Italy
Designer & Site Manager: Luana Balzano
Surveyor: Luigi Burelli
Contractor: NG Ristrutturazioni e Impianti SRL
Client: Giuseppe Balzano
Status: Completed
Tasks: Project initiation and detailed design; Documentation for relevant approval; Supporting surveyor liaising with council; Documentation for construction; Specifications (finishes, fixtures and fittings, joinery, doors & lighting); Coordination of consultants on site; Site inspections
Software: Rhino (2D)
STAGE
Patrick Freehill
Design 5 Architects Heritage & Hospitality
Patrick Freehill is a heritage listed three-level Victorian Regency stone building. Dating from the 1850s and 1860s, the building was extensively renovated as a restaurant in the 1970s.
To conduct conservation, restoration and maintenance works, structural repairs and compliance upgrades, the building was stripped back of decades of additions to reveal the significant base structure and fabric.
Further upgrades involved the replacement of roof structure to the rear, and the renovation of stormwater and ventilation systems.
Location: The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Design Team: Calista Novia, Lian Wong, Luana Balzano, Robert Gasparini
Contractor: Belmadar
Client: Placemaking NSW
Status: Completed (make good works)
Task: Base drawings; Design studies for the roof layout and accessibility (DDA); Drawings for presentations and reports; Compliance with Building Codes; Documentation for Section 60, Tender and Construction; Supporting the coordination of consultants; Site meetings; Meetings with clients and consultants
Software: Vectorworks (2D)
[3] Photography: Brett Boardman
SOUTH WEST ROCKS ROAD
SOUTH WEST ROCKS ROAD
Living Museum & Healing Centre
Design 5 Architects
Mixed use community-led project
The Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home former site is a place of deep significance and the only Stolen Generations site in NSW where original buildings and layout remained intact. Design 5 have been in an ongoing collaboration with KBHAC to bring the history of the site to life for the public since 2014.
The KBH survivors, their descendants and families want to transform the heritage listed KBH site into a living museum and healing centre that will allow communities to come together to experience loss, grief, truth-telling, and also to strengthen their collective growth, healing and resilience.
Location: Kinchela, NSW
Design Team: Alan Croker, Jakeb Love, Luana Balzano
Client: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC)
Status: DA
Tasks: Site visits; Meetings with clients and their families; Preparation of drawings and views for presentations; Co-design workshops and reports; 3D modelling; Co-design of the Healing Centre Site, including the detailed design of the Healing Centre, short term and long term accommodation; DA documentation Software: Vectorworks (3D)
COMMERCIAL IN
John McAslan + Partners
The Waterloo Metro Station
John McAslan + Partners
Transport and Infrastructure
‘The past is in the earth, the future is in the sky’ is the design narrative that has informed our vision of the layered nature of the Waterloo precinct.
Above ground, the buildings’ scale has been broken down to reflect the specific contexts and to mediate between the scale of the buildings above and the human scale of a vibrant streetscape.
The northern building, which reflects the architecture of warehouses and rail sheds of the area, comprises retail opportunities and the public entry to the station. The southern building, instead, reflects the scale of houses, corner shops and smaller buildings.
Location: Sydney, NSW
Design Team: John McAslan + Partners in collaboration with Woods Bagot
Contractor: John Holland
Client: Sydney Metro
Status: Completed
Task: Documentation for Design Development stage 1,2,3 and for Construction; Setting-out and detailing of all BOH and FOH ceiling systems; Building services coordination; Security, communication and lighting coordination; Compliance with Building Codes; and others
Software: Revit
Walu-win Wellbeing Pavilion
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
Wellbeing and Rehabilitation Centre - Health
Walu-win wellbeing and rehabilitation centre in Orange provides additional spaces for the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service and offers complimentary services predominantly to community elders.
The building sits as a pavilion within a community garden, creating a welcoming learning space for local culture. Natural light and familiar materials have facilitated community ownership; while meaningful engagement with client and community has enabled a deeper understanding of what was required.
The efficiency of the plan maximises usable space and ventilation; while the use of reclaimed brickworks and Darwin Stringy-bark cladding gives the pavilion a sense of domestic familiarity and avoids any institutional feel.
Location: Wiradjuri Country, Orange, NSW
Design Team: David Kaunitz, Emma Trask Ward, Marni Reti, Luana Balzano
Contractor: Renacent Australia
Client: Orange Aboriginal Medical Service
Status: Completed
Task: Supporting Project Architects as needed in the documentation for Tender and Construction
Software: Revit
[3] Photography: Brett Boardman
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
Kiddiwinks, Bligh Park
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
Childcare Centre
The design of the Kiddiwinks Childcare in Bligh Park maximises natural light and ventilation whilst providing direct access to a high quality outdoor space from each playroom.
A covered external timber deck becomes the threshold between the outdoor playground and the internal playrooms.
The internal layout has been designed for efficiency and clear definition between the teachers and staff’s area, circulation space and playrooms.
Location: Bligh Park, NSW
Design Team: David Kaunitz, Luana Balzano, Roozbeh Khaligh
Client: Isaac Property Developments
Status: Completed
Task: Supporting Project Architects as needed in the documentation for Tender
Software: Revit
[4] Photography: Unknown
