Walker Lloyd 9 2023 Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Landscape Architecture

Fourth Year Student

Portfolio

Walker Lloyd

Walker Lloyd

434 - 284 - 2152

wlloyd43@vt.edu

Fourth Year Student Virginia Tech BLA Program

Design is the process of discovering beautiful solutions to practical problems.

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3D Rendering

Deck Design at Foxridge Pond

View from Pergola

Design for deck, boardwalk, and pergola, at the Foxridge Pond in Blacksburg, Virginia. The deck is designed according to appropriate dimension standards for the anticipated load and scale of the completed structure. The deck design was drawn in AutoCAD and modelled in Sketchup, before finally being rendered in Twin Motion. Twin Motion allows the render to be experienced in either a drone mode, where the camera can be free flown, or pedestrian mode, where the camera is navigated at approximately head height and auditory feedback is provided based on the material of the surfaces being “walked” on. In pedestrian mode, the render is compatible with VR allowing myself and others to maneuver around the design in virtual reality to better understand the scale and appearance of the design and render.

Construction Documents

Deck Boardwalk and Pergola

Concept Design for Fountain Installation

Private Residence - Warrenton, VA

Fountain implementation, grading, and swale at a residence in Warrenton, Virginia. I was commissioned to create renders to show to use as precedent images for a contractor. The fountain is placed in a mulch bed beside the front door with cardiandra shrubs and rocks placed around it. There are existing nandina and pieris shrubs placed along the wall to the left of the door. The site as it stands allows water to flow downhill into the house. Initial request from the client involved grading plan and the implementation of a retaining wall (pictured above) to divert water away from the house. This was changed to a swale planted with butterfly shrubs (pictured right) to divert water along the entrance path and down to the parking lot. Contour lines where exported from ArcGIS PRO, features were cleaned up in AutoCAD, modelled in Sketchup, and rendered in Twin Motion.

House, walkway, and contour mesh are modelled in Sketchup. All other assets including house details, vegetation, and modifications are added in the rendering process. No construction or design documents were required for this project so beyond the contours and linework in CAD, none were produced. Adding any details in the rendering stage allows the modelling process to be relatively quick. Above the house is pictured (from left to right) rendered before the roof has an overhang, through the process of extending the roof.

Nandina Pieris

Cadiandra Butterfly Shrub

First Draft Model

Second Draft Model

Modelling Process

Plant Palette

Design Render

Site Designs

Design Segments

Cast Iron Brewery & Distillery

at VCI Site

Radford, Virginia

The Cast Iron Brewery and Distillery at the abandoned Virginia Casting Industries industrial site in Radford, Virginia. The 80 acre site was once the location of the Virginia Casting Industries Iron Foundry which employed many Radford citizens and was a huge source of income for the city. In the absence of the foundry today, the city needs a major employer / source of income. The Brewery / Distillery makes use of several opportunities presented by the site including the surplus of potable water from the Claytor Dam, and existing foundation. The Brewery and Distillery roughly occupy a combined 100,000 sq ft. The site features onsite greenhouses, loading docks and shipping lot, visitor parking, a restaurant, educational grain fields, and a paved gathering space on top of what was once a landfill for the foundry, as well as increased vegetation to begin the process of remediating the soil from decades of pollution. Inventory and analysis for the project focused heavily on the surrounding region of the site to better understand the needs of the city, before attempting to address those needs through design.

Regional Analysis

Greenhouses Stairs to paved berm Parking lot entrance

Flood Plain

Site Concept

Elevation Map

City Zoning

City Parks and Greenspaces City Public Transit and Roads

Site analysis and Concept

Site Model

Design Render

The Front Yard at Covenant Woods

Mechanicsville, Virginia

The Front Yard at Covenant Woods in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The existing “Grand Lawn” is used as an event space three to four times throughout the year, and the paths are used by residents for exercise and recreation. But in talking with residents, we learned that the community placed the most value on the site’s visual presence on the campus. By adding seating areas, path “detours” which direct guests’ views towards the lodge, a paved event space, and an expanded color palette with dogwood trees, azaleas, and flower beds, The Front Yard project aims to increase physical interaction with the site without sacrificing those features of the Grand Lawn that the current residents of Covenant Woods value. This design was selected for implementation by the architecture firm under contract for the project.

Design Process

Initial analysis involved observing important sight lines and transportation lanes in and around the site.

Views into the site from entrance roads and paths must stay.

Initial concept planning involved a new entrance area, a large paved gathering space, a site centerpiece, sitting areas, and intermediate greenspaces. These were rescaled for plan.

Final Plan renders the design intent simply and legibly allowing for the main appearance presentation to be communicated by the design render (pictured right).

Crape Myrtle

Dogwood Tree

Azalea Shrub Wildflowers

Sketch of the Grand Lodge from across The Front Yard from one of the seating areas

Plant Palette

Design Render

Section Rendering

Sections

Highway 460

Blacksburg, Virginia

Sections from US Highway 460 and Prices Fork Road rendered in Illustrator,

Assorted Works 4

Planting Plan On Virginia Tech Campus

Layers of Trace

Assorted Sketches

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