Lia Margolis | Selected Works Portfolio 2023

LIA JIENING FU MARGOLIS

Portfolio | Selected Works 2018-2022

B.Arch Candidate, Syracuse University

My name is Lia Jiening Fu Margolis, and I am a graduating fifth-year student at the Syracuse University School of Architecture’s fiveyear B.Arch program. As a designer, I focus on creating meaningful, unique, and conceptually rigorous work. This portfolio includes five studio projects, along with other artistic works that demonstrate both my range and skills as a designer. I am passionate about Design Justice work, adaptive reuse, and social-consciousness towards the climate crisis.

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B. Arch Candidate

Syracuse University

School of Architecture

Class of 2023

ljmargol@syr.edu

Greater Philadelphia

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PG. 3-6 “MINI CITY” THERAPY COMPLEX | ARCHITECTURE AS COMMUNITY-MAKING PG. 7-10 CONTEMPLATIVE TRAPPIST MONASTERY | SPACES OF CONFLICT PG. 11-14 PAIMIO CHAIR FACTORY | RE/DECONSTRUCTION PG. 15-18 VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS PAVILION | NESTING: TECTONICS AND FORMG PG. 19-22 LAKE CLIMATE CRISIS MONUMENT | THE HARD WATER PROJECT PG. 23-26 STUDIO ART & OTHER WORK | contents | 2 2

“mini city” therapy complex |

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ARCHITECTURE AS COMMUNITY-MAKING ARC 407 | SPRING 2022

ARC 407, SPRING 2022

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO

THERAPY COMPLEX

Syracuse, NY

We aim to fill the gaps in the city of Syracuse by providing specialized individual and group therapy, along with event space for collaboration with nearby institutions.

This therapy city will bring people together and create a place of growth for Syracuse community, specifically for previously incarerated adults and youth.

Created in collaboration with Ebonia Moody.

EVENT KID-FRIENDLY INDIVIDUAL BASEMENT BATHROOMS GROUP RECEPTION ELEVATORS STAIRS EXTERIOR EVENT SPACE PLAY THERAPY INTERIOR EVENT SPACE MEDITATION OFFICES GROUP THERAPY FAMILY THERAPY RECEPTION INDIVIDUAL THERAPY ANIMAL THERAPY ART THERAPY DANCE THERAPY 4

The nature of therapeutic programming requires forgiving and calming spaces, inspiring the steel frame with timber and glass walls to create connection between nature and the interior.

COLUMNS

GIRDERS

FRAMES

JOISTS

TRUSSES

down down H A B C D E I J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 F 8 G H A B C D E I J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 F 8 G up

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H A B C D E J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 F 8 G up up up up up Cold water, water from water main Hot water waste pipes UFAD system H J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 Cold water, water from water main Hot water waste pipes UFAD system COLD WATER/FROM WATER MAIN HOT WATER UFAD SYSTEM WASTE PIPES INTERIOR GLASS WALLS WITH STEEL MULLIONS STEEL GIRDERS TRIPLE-GLAZED GLASS FACADE TRUSSES AND GLASS WOOD CLADDING SAW-TOOTH ROOF WITH REFLECTING GLAZING TIMBER-FINISHED INTERIOR WALLS STEEL COLUMNS JOISTS AND GIRDERS GYPSUM BOARD 6

| contemplative trappist monastery |

SPACES OF CONFLICT

ARC 307 | FALL 2020

Guest Rooms for Visitors Private Balconies

Monks'

Interior Balcony

Rooms Formal Reception Private Reading Rooms + Studies Daily Chant Room Chapel: Abbot's Throne, Altar, Nave Lobby Panel Walls Entrance Ramp Bathrooms Kitchen Refectory Outdoor Space/Communal Garden

Monks' Living Quarters Private Living Areas on Each Floor

Counseling/Contemplation Rooms

Offices

Counseling/Contemplation

ARC 307, FALL 2020 STUDIO TRAPPIST MONASTERY ABBEY LOGAN CIRCLE, WASHINGTON D.C.

Spaces of Conflict questions how religion can help modern societal issues. We challenge architecture and the city as expressions of regime and collective will and conceptualize that architecture and urban spaces are politically-charged, stimulants of debate.

Trappist Abbeys require monks to provide labor in service to the greater good, demonstrated here in providing spiritual counsel and refuge. This architecture suggests civic disobedience, while maintaining clear strategy, conceptual rigor, coherent tectonics, and an urban understanding that is formally and spatially methodical and hierarchical.

MANIFESTO:

"This Trappist Abbey believes contemplation is an individual experience, a journey requiring time and reflection. According to Thomas Merton, contemplation is the search for truth, enlightenment, and pure self. Our labor is to help those who are lostphysically and emotionally- find enlightenment through contemplation, spiritual guidance, and counsel. Longterm lodging is available for those on the path to recovery."

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| paimio chair factory |

RE/DECONSTRUCTION

ARC 207 | FALL 2019

ARC 207, FALL 2019 STUDIO

Chair Factory

Silo City, Buffalo, NY.

Silo City: an area of abandoned former grain factories, each with a unique function and architecture - now repurposed for arts and community gathering.

Combining old and new purpose, Reconstruction and Deconstruction transforms

Perot Grain Elevator into a manufacturing and gallery space for Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Chair. Patrons walking the core promenade can observe the chair throughout its manufacturing process.

Double Elevators: 1 for visitors, 1 for employees

Open Gallery, Factory Observation

Basement: Storage, Process, Assembly Shipping + Handling

Factory Factory

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Conference

1st

Break

Gallery

Vertical Conveyer Gallery/Promenade FACTORY FLOOR 1 12

Office Floor

Room

Office Floor

Room

Factory Lobby

Plywood/chair seat and birch delivered via shipping ramp, then sent to cutting station.

Plywood and birch cut separately into thin planks, birch cut 1/2 original size.

Birch sent up via conveyer belts, cut 1/4 original size.

Birch sent via conveyer belts, cut 1/8 original size.

Birch sent via conveyer belts, cut 1/16 original size.

Birch sent down via conveyer belt, stored in bulk in basement for 1 year.

Birch sent up via conveyer belt, cut into lengths for chair leg part.

Staggered notches cut into birch (for the Aalto wood-bending method) [8,9].

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Wood is sanded and shined, Aalto woodbending method, creating seemingly continuous wood. [10-12] Chair arms and legs stored in basement for 45 days.

Post-Step 2, plywood sent to basement for sanding and cleaning.

Plywood sent to machine wood-bending station.

Plywood and birch assembled.

Chair ready to ship, put on opposite entrance ramp.

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The materials are processed in both vertical and horizontal loopbeginning and ending on the ground. Each step has a designated silo, with former interstitial spaces becoming vertical conveyer belts. The stepby-step process is mimicked formally with a stepping facade. Working on a nine-square grid, the factory takes inspiration from classical precedents, also seen in the grand atrium and facade. The square/half-circle elevators formally and literally transition the orthographic “facade” shapes to the silo’s curvilinear exterior shell.

SECTION 3

BASEMENT PLAN

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| visual and performing arts pavilion |

NESTING: TECTONICS AND FORM

ARC 207 | FALL 2019

Pushing the concept of nesting, this VPA pavilion incorporates nesting in the the massing, windows, circulation, and the ground by taking advantage of the sloped site. To reinforce how the circulation spirals towards central gathering spaces, overhead skylights also follow a spiral pattern.

The exterior and interior walls are concrete and self-supporting, chosen to emphasize how the massing is carved out to create nesting.

Located on a sloped parking lot on the Syracuse University campus, this pavilion is designed with a fine arts focus. Many nearby buildings feature large nested gathering spaces, with large interior gathering spaces, including dorm buildings, a library and even the Everson Museum designed by the late I.M. Pei.

Proposed

ARC 207, FALL 2019 STUDIO VPA Pavilion Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

VPA Pavilion 4x size

Precedent: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (2015) 6x size Precedent: Everson Museum 1x size Bird Library 1x Size Watson Hall 1x size

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Ernie Davis Hall and Dellplain Hall 1x size

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lake climate crisis monument |

Constructed for 100 years in the future, the Hard Water Project serves as a place of mourning for Onondaga Lake. The namesake comes a scientific measurements of contaminated water, "water hardness".

Once one of the most polluted lakes in the US, Onondaga Lake has both contaminated water and soil. After over a century of wastewater and industrial waste dumped into the lake, the water quality became toxic and filled with many chemicals, including Mercury, Magnesium, and Calcium.

THE HARD WATER PROJECT: ONONDAGA LAKE PARK RESEARCH FOR CLIMATE CRISIS MONUMENT 2220

ARC 208 | SPRING 2020

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ARC 208, SPRING 2020 STUDIO CLIMATE CHANGE MONUMENT ONONDAGA LAKE,

NY

Despite the revitalization efforts of the 2005 Onondaga Cleanup Plan, the lake water is still contaminated with a high water hardness - too much Magnesium and Calcium. While safe in small quantities, too much of these chemicals (high alkalinity and water hardness) can lead to unsuitable living conditions for many organisms. If ingested, hard water can lead to both health problems for humans and issues for many soft and medium-water fish. Different plants need hard or soft water, creating to possibilities for unique underwater environments.

After numerous water and soil testing we conclude that lake water hardness will grow worse with human intrusion. This project creates a recreational pool along one of the lake tributaries where water is pumped and filtered. Visitors confront the lake’s contamination by being able to swim in the artificially-cleaned water, yet only able to witness the contrasting ecosystems in the hard and soft water conditions.

Filtration system using a Culligan Commercial-hi-flo50. Calcium and

is cleaned out using positivelycharged resin bead ions. The structural concrete fins are tools to push water towards the filtration system. Filtered water is first cleaned and then pushed through an industrial pump that maintains steady water flow. This ensures that no hard or unsafe water for humans can flow into the swimming area.

Created in collaboration with Laura Mukazhanova

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Magnesium

Those ascending the stairs to the lake structure can observe the swimmers, read about Onondaga’s pollution history, or swim themselves. The project is located near a busy highway and tourist area to remind of visitors of the lake pollution caused by people.

There is always clean water flow through the swimming area, back into the lake. Another fin-type with a net signifies the pool boundary, simulating being in unfiltered lake water while being in complete safety.

The exihibition space demonstrates the two different environments created by the soft (left) and hard water (right) conditions.

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The program encourages spatial dialogue with strategic glass-wall placement and circulation directing visitors to pass all attractions to reach the other side. A fin-like concrete pathway leads to the project, formally mimicking the fins directing the lake water. The shores havev outdoor eating spaces, an indoor cafe, and a scientific exploration building for visitors to test the water themselves.