“Mini City” Therapy Complex
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.
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Created in collaboration with Ebonia Moody.
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Architecture as Community-Building Syracuse, NY
Contemplative Trappist Monastery
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.
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“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 lost - physically and emotionally- find enlightenment through contemplation, spiritual guidance, and counsel. Long-term lodging is available for those on the path to recovery.”
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Monks' Living Quarters Private Living Areas on Each Floor Guest Rooms for Visitors Private Balconies Counseling/Contemplation Rooms Monks' Offices Interior Balcony Counseling/Contemplation 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 ljmargol@syr.edu | Greater Philadelphia Area | Full Portfolio| 2 of 3
Spaces of Conflict Logan Circle, Washington D.C.
Lake Climate Crisis Monument
Constructed for 100 years in the future,Hard Water Project serves as a place of mourning for Onondaga Lake. The namesake comes a scientific measurements of contaminated water, “water hardness”.
Onondaga Lake was once one of the most polluted lakes in the US, with both contaminated water and soil after over a century of wastewater and industrial waste was dumped into its waters. 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. After numerous water and soil testing we conclude that the lake water hardness will grow worse with human intrusion.
The Hard Water Project: Onondaga Lake Park Research for Climate Crisis Monument 2220 Liverpool, NY
While safe in small quantities, high alkalinity and water hardness can lead to unsuitable living conditions for many organisms, including health problems for humans and many soft/medium water fish. Different plants need hard or soft water, creating to possibilities for unique underwater environments.
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.
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