Portfolio 2025_Benjamin Vassar

[in collaboration with Dana Mor]

“Poster

Logics”

“Tracing

Shifting Contact”

“MAKE”

“Personal Work”

Christoph Core I

Esteban Joseph

Giuseppe Ada Make

Joseph Zeal Henry

Esteban de Backer

Oral Infrastructures

BQE, highway overpass, adaptive reuse, singleuse infrastructure, spatial activation, subcultures, partying, civic responsibility

Teng

Christoph a. Kumpusch

Contested Territories

Freshkills, Staten Island, transportation alternatives, billboards, advertising, mobility, connecting communities

hybrid housing/infrastructure, flood mitigation, rainwater collection, vertical gardens, open circulation core

wheatpaste posters, advertising, appropriation, material exploration, media theory, situationism, sceculative fragments, sculpture garden

transit, traffic circles, traffic symbols, intended vs. actual use, safety, disorientation, indexing the city, urban journalism

readymade, found objects, trash, repurposing, intuition, material transformation, discovery,

Giuseppe Lignano + Ada Tolla

[2]

[1] mediums inside mediums

[2] poster cutting logic

[3] sculpture garden axo sketch

[1] church nave perspectives [2] church shoebox iso

[1] decay logic speculative fragment [2] material research studies

[1]

[2]

[1] “landscape signals” [2] “transmission lines” [3] “billboard bridge”

[1] “oppressive interiority” [2] “stereotypes” vs. “reality”

CRITIC: JOSEPH ZEAL-HENRY

[1] process book stills, DARK_UNDERBELLY

[1]

[1] full animation scroll

[2] final animation still“nightclub”

17’-2”

[1] detail - melted polyethylene over galvanized steel

[2] “Dissolve”

[2]

[1] Columbus Circle rockite model on site model

[2] collective Broadway site model - no. 4 rebar, welded

[1] traffic marking research photographs

[2] process photobook - “Tracing Shifting Contact”

PARTNER: DANA MOR CRITIC: GALIA SOLOMONOFF

[1] Roofline // Massing Diagram

[2] Outdoor Core Diagram

[3] Air + Water Concept Diagram