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
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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
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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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