A Collection of Works
By Adam Wingert
Syracuse Co-Living
Syracuse Abroad Campus
Orange Robotics Branding
Venice Biennale Reflection
Landform Simulation
Syracuse Youth Hostel
Ecological Research Center
New York Soil Study
Public Fashion Exhibition
Collecting Collectives: Syracuse Co-living
ARC 307 Studio
Instructor: Marcos Parga
With the I-81 viaduct scheduled to come down in the near future, the entire class of 307 is tasked with designing housing to occupy the soon to be empty sites along the highway’s path. This project is a co-living project designed for an imagined collective of diverse age and background. The building aims to provide flexibility and comfort to individuals and groups by providing many shared amenities and opportunities to choose one’s own level of privacy. The individual units dissolve the living space into private areas along the street-facing facade, a strip of service spaces, and an operable living area in each unit that can be completely opened up to a larger band of shared space in each floor. This allows residents to choose how they interact with their peers and gives them flexibility day over day.
Shown here are two typical floor plans showing single and double units. Each has their own personal space but also has access to the resources of the rest of the floor. Shared areas for work, eating, cooking, and socializing bring clusters of units together, creating miniature collectives within the larger collection the building shelters.
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Rear-Facing Facade
The large rear strip of space provides myriad opportunity for connection between groups of units, the floor as a whole, and the different levels through secondary vertical circulation and key spaces such as balconies and shared kitchens. The front facade presents a more typical appearance, reflecting the more rigid private areas within. The rear facade is much more detailed and dynamic, expressing the ever changing needs and happenings of the residents.
Syracuse Fashion School: Tokyo
ARC 208 Studio Instructor: Jess Myers
This project’s aim is to create a concept of an abroad campus for Syracuse University’s fashion design program located in Tokyo. The basis of this design is a lattice-like tectonic system derived from an assembly of simple units at 60 degree angles. This compressive system springs up from the ground floor growing outward as it rises. The system opens up towards the main street with a large curtain wall and closes up for greater privacy along the back walls which face residential areas. Pockets created by the lattice allow for windows and light to reach through the wall and can also allow for storage. Inside there are offices, studio space, a large event room, and various facilities for models and designers such as changing rooms.
As the floors rise, the system encases more of the space, lending more privacy and inward focus to the these spaces. The view out towards the main road is always preserved on the main face of the building.
Orange Robotics Graphic Design
This work was completed as a part of rebranding efforts for Orange Robotics. For this student organizations, I worked on creating a new text logo and a series of illustrations and updates to our mascot originally designed by Alex Callo. I worked to maintain the club’s existing personality while refining the visual language of our brand and introduce playful designs to be used in various club materials and merchandise. The main focus was on a crisp update that could be used to attract new members and work as a part of official organization documents and promotional materials like social media posts, posters, and stickers.
Mascot Illustrations
Club Text Logo
Merchandise Mock-up
A Study of the 2023 Venice
Biennale
ARC 500
Instructor: Brit Eversole
During the summer of 2023, I took part in a study abroad program that visited Venice and the surrounding area to study the history of the region and the Venice Biennale. This poster series is a response to a selection of displays that were a part of the Biennale, specifically analyzing the aesthetics of protest used by many exhibitors. As a critical analysis of the event, it can be seen that many of the displays,, to fit within the format of the event, fall somewhat flat. These posters explore the underlying immateriality behind these actions using the layering of digital renders, photographs, and quotes from the displays themselves.
Landform Analysis and Visualization
ARC 207 Studio
Instructor: Hannibal Newsom
This exercise kicked off the second year of studio by examining landforms and the processes by which they form and affect their surroundings. Specifically, the tower karst formations of South-East Asia were selected for study. These limestone towers are the product of water and wind erosion that create new wind patterns and areas of light and dark, which this work focused on. This image, selected from a small collection produced for the project, is a layered wind flow simulation of the patterns of flow the fully formed karsts create. This examines the impact that the landscape has on the changeable conditions around its environment as well as how form shapes flow.
Syracuse Youth Hostel
ARC 108 Studio
Instructor: Edgar Rodriguez
The final project of first year studio was a youth hostel for the Syracuse area. This design is set in a mixed use area, bordering a residential neighborhood and a commercial street. It is based on a triangular grid, angling the views from inside towards the social, public street and the views from the exterior towards the neighboring community garden space.
The project is also formed around a progression of privacy, where the building reflects the typology of the typical suburban home, progressing from a public “porch” and proceeding inside to social space before continuing further to reach the private rooms. This hostel design brings life and community to the neighborhood while responding directly to the existing precedent of its urban location.
Ecological Research Center
ARC 207 Studio
Instructor: Hannibal Newsom
The culmination of second year fall studio is an ecological research outpost sited in Beacon, New York. For this project, our studio researched the site, the local biosphere, and speculated what would happen in the future were this site to be left to regrow without human interference. From this basis, research on landforms and elemental flows completed earlier in the semester was incorporated to create the basis of the center. This research defined the central section of the building, a large open, mixed use space that blends back into the natural landscape. The shaping of this lower section led to domed, programmed spaces, each of which explores a different relationship to the central section.
New York City Soil
Surveys
ARC 407 Studio
Instructor: Rami Abou-Khalil
The focus of the first of two global campus studies, taking place in New York City, is on the soils of urban environments. In collaboration with Dana Freedman, we chose to focus on the flows and usefulness of soil as it comes into and out of the city. The left drawing is a representation of how soil has entered major spaces throughout the city over time. The right image is part of this study where I have imagined outgoing soil from excavations and construction used to create stabilized compressed earth blocks. In this way, the soil produced by construction could be recycled back into construction materials if the soil itself is not suitable for other purposes.
Bode Runway Exhibition
ARC 208 Studio
Instructor: Jess Myers
Bode is a fashion label focused on using classic elements of fashion design in new and exiting ways. For this design project, the aim was to create a hypothetical public runway exhibition for this designer based on their design styles and motifs. Set in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, this temporary structure exists to allow many overlapping views of the runway and the famous landmarks in the area. The core inspiration for the runway design came from the arrangements of views to frame the runway and models at multiple distances and highlight the existing city in the far distance. Working with Bode’s strong historical influence in mind, drawing on these existing site elements was the natural course to take. Further, as Brooklyn is a historical center of transit, bridges are used to allow car traffic through in limited amounts, bringing a new way to view the show from the rich American tradition of drive through attractions.
The looping nature of the layout references the weaves and textile prints Bode uses in their collections. It also provides multiple opportunities to view each look at differing distances and angles, no matter the position of the spectator.
The process began with a tectonic module, created alongside Martha Casey. This module is designed to be made of recycled materials like standard lumber and square steel or aluminum. It features adjustable segments that can be rearranged and disassembled easily for transport between show locations. The material palette fits Bode’s aesthetics by matching with the interiors of their existing shops which pull heavily from 70s wood clad interiors with metal accents.
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Module Model
As a part of this assignment, our studio was encouraged to explore the presentation of our architectural drawings. In keeping with bode’s ethos, the elevations here are presented in the style of lithographic travel posters that could be used as promotional material for the show itself. The section (following page) draws from silver age comics for a bold look referencing bode’s inspirations and the city itself.
