Payton Villescas Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2016

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Payton Michael Villescas Landscape Architecture Por tfolio


Fifth Year Bringing Community Closer

Four th Year Dynamic Sanctuary

Lyaeus Winery and Vineyard

Third Year White Oak Crossing

Second Year Turner Plaza

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Payton Michael Villescas 2314 Spruce Street Muskegon, MI 49444

paytonv9@vt.edu 616.402.3120

Education

Experience

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Nashville, TN

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture expected 2016

Summer, 2015

Landscape Architecture Design Intern

Developed design detail drawings for various project scales and types.

Steger Center for International Scholarship, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland International Residency Program Fall 2014

Spring Lake High School, Spring Lake, MI Graduated 2011 cum laude

Skills

Utilized various software programs to complete site renderings aiding clients visualizing the proposed designs.

Community Design Assistance Center, Blacksburg, VA

Spring, 2015

Student Designer

Lead the exploration of conceptual designs for the redevelopment of a small town’s streetscape network. Met with city board members to discus and present design ideas.

AutoCAD ArcGIS Adobe Creative Suite Hand Graphics Site Grading

Brookdale Senior Living, Chicago, IL

Summer, 2013

Concierge

Ensured complete satisfaction for residents and visitors as well as the faculty and staff within the community. Tasks included: Taking calls, scheduling appointments, making reservations, requesting service and maintenance, and emergency dispatch.

Owens Dining Hall, Blacksburg, VA

2012 - 2014

Student Assistant Manager

SketchUp

Trained all new employees to efficiently work and maintain all ten stations throughout Owen’s.

Revit

Worked to ensure customer satisfaction, maintain food quality, and support a positive work environment.


Bringing Community Closer Virginia Beach, VA

The city of Virginia beach is a separated city. Geographically, its existing infrastructure splits the regions within it apart. Culturally, this causes isolation among a community that is proud of where they live, work, and play. Also, despite being a coastal city the citizens of Virginia Beach are ill prepared for the projected sea level rise. This project proposes solutions to the towns problems - first and foremost by bringing together public and private spaces by introducing greenways that traverse the entire city Virginia Beach can begin to walk and bike from neighborhood to neighborhood. It also provides more public spaces to gather while reducing the amount of impervious surface that deterred community interaction. By moving all future development and population further inland, future loss of homes can be prevented. In addition the waterfront that was once privately owned will become buffer parks to minimize storm surge and offer another opportunity for communities to grow together.



Bringing Community Closer

Master Plan

Linear Park Section

Master Plan Concept Perspective


1 Light 7

Rail Station built to provide a public transportation system that brought the local and neighboring communities together

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2 Splash

Pad within the linear park a splash pad will be implemented for as a point of interest and enjoyment on a hot day

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3 Multi-Use

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Trails to encourage non-vehicular travel throughout the

city biking and walking trails will be implemented along the light rail

4 Main

Lawn the main gathering space to sit for a picnic or to see an

even on the nearby plaza

5 Central

used as a unique stage for local events and shows

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6 Mixed-Use

Development while Virginia Beach is not the largest city, residents can have the urban feel of living in a populated place

7 Open Site Plan Plan

Plaza a spaced usually used to pass through can be easily

Seating public seating thought the design stitches the public realm and the private realm providing opportunity for community interaction


Dynamic Sanctuary Blacksburg, VA

Hillcrest Hall is currently used to house the honor students, provide offices for faculty members, and host banquets for the University. Even with all of these functions very few associate the hall as part of the Virginia Tech campus because of its foreign style and distance from the rest of campus. The final issue that Hillcrest struggles with is the current wasted lawn space on both the north and south side. They have little character and what is currently existing is outdated and in disrepair. The transformation of Hillcrest Hall as a dynamic sanctuary aims to provide for a diverse and ever changing group of individuals. An open use patio and garden that builds on the existing beauty of the surrounding landscape. The dynamic sanctuary approach enhances the degrading front entrance, provides gathering spaces for groups and individuals, and finally connects Hillcrest users to the rest of Virginia Tech through the subtle use of ‘hokie stone’ within the gabion walls. The design allows for the unique traditions and activities to flourish, expand, and alter just as the people within Hillcrest do.

Dynamic Approach Concept Drawing

Open Hillcrest Hall

Enclosed

Gabion Terracing

Nestled Site Plan


ADA Entry to Patio

Walnut Seating Outdoor Gathering/ Classroom

Arching Walkway


Dynamic Sanctuary

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Walnut Seating Perspective

1 The

Arc a path that gently brings people around the landscape under the fully grown trees 2 Gabion Terrace shrub planting and gabion walls filled with local ‘hokie stone’ 3 Walnut Seating making use of the large walnut’s canopy is a shady spot to relax or study 4 Outdoor Gathering a location with primary and secondary seating that can be used as a class space

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5 South 1

Master Plan

Seating perfect for watching the sunset or enjoying a nice day outdoors 6 ADA Entrance to ensure everybody can enjoy the Hillcrest community, inside and out 7 Activity Lawn an open-use lawn to play the yearly croquette match or throw around the frisbee

Site Section


Flowering Plum Tree

Planting Plan

Mugo Pine

Blue Star Juniper

Summersweet ‘Ruby Spice’

Sweet Woodruff


Lyaeus Winery and Vineyard Riva San Vitale, Switzerland

Designed while studying abroad, culture and literature prevailed in the creation of this project. Vineyards in the Ticino region of Switzerland are renowned for their Merlot. The tasting room and garden was where literature and atmosphere came together within the project. The story of Bacchus - the god of grape harvesting and wine distilling - became the basis for design decisions. Elements within the garden allude to his tale, such as the planting of pines to reference his pine cone tipped fennel staff. Beyond that it is often said that Bacchus was a god of duality. On one side, he was disorderly and euphoric while on the other was order and fairness, a pattern the garden follows as you journey to the tasting room. Upon entering the garden you descend into a shaded overgrown grotto. It is a care free sensation as your surroundings fall away and you relax among the plants. You then climb back to the surface and journey down a path where vegetation becomes more sparse until finally entering the grand tasting room. A place of pure geometry which provides the opportunity to look out upon the lake and mountains. Overall the experience creates a surreal atmosphere of bliss. Ultimately, the name follows suit to this journey. Lyaeus, an epithet of Bacchus, embodies the experience of exploring the winery and vineyard.

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Plan

Section

Elevation

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1 Tasting

Room A large open space with a large oculus looking over the vineyard and nearby lake. A room or pure geometry and order

2 Overgrown

Grotto Sunken in the ground,

covered in shade the overgrown grotto surrounds you in an atmospheric enclosure

3 Order

to Chaos The walk from the grotto to the tasting room is the transition from chaos to order - a visual journey of the dichotomy


White Oak Crossing Blacksburg, VA

A group collaborative neighborhood design project raised the question of sustainability. Within the small but dense community, everything one might need is located within walking or biking distance: a school, a community center, an urban center with night life, public parks, and even an aquatic research fishery. To allow social stainability, housing for all age groups and family sizes brings a diverse, ever growing neighborhood together, making strangers into family. Throughout White Oak Crossing is the sense of agriculture, alluding to the sites past use. This agriculture was looked at in many scales with large scale farming on the East, a central community garden, and the use of field to plate restaurants within the town center.

Rain Gardens Mixed-Use Development

White Oak Crossing was collaborative effort with classmates: Evan Miller, Jess VanNoy, and Boram Kim.

Public Transit Stop

District Plan

Town Center Site Plan


Covered Seating Streatscape Perspective

Stage

Parallel Parking Concrete Pavers

Seating and Stage Perspective


Tu r n e r P l a z a Blacksburg, VA

This project was about the redesign of a small plaza and under-used parking lot. The area became a high transit pedestrian area that outdated its current function. By studying common entrances and desired paths, the new design gives the pedestrian dominance. As an act to counteract the previous parking lot, this design focused on keeping the existing mature vegetation unharmed. The outcome was a green passage that brought much needed seating for the nearby dining hall as well as a location to relax in the shade between classes.

Randolph Hall

Activity Space

Movement Diagram

Lounging Lawn

Lawn Section

Norris Hall Plaza Section

Site Plan


Turner Place Dining Hall

Serpentine Walk

Holden Hall

Kelly Hall

Outdoor Seating

Exposed Aggregate

McBryde Hall


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