Gathering by Dale Suttle, So Sugita and Ginna Nguyen, was designed to be “calculated yet unpredictable,” providing both shade and openness.Blo Puff by the Brooklyn-based design team Bittertang attempted to create an acoustic and visual refuge from the bustling city.The goal of Star Cocoon, which is made of bamboo and rattan materials, by Volkan Alkanoglu is to encourage communication within a community.Shim Sukkah by tinder, tinker uses the shim, a wedge usually used to fill an unplanned gap, as its building block.Single Thread by Matter Practice, is constructed by looping a continuous wire around a bamboo scaffold, which will eventually be removed.Sukkah of the Signs by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, is made of signs purchased from the homeless.LOG by Kyle May and Scott Abrahams, comprises glass walls supporting a cedar log.In Tension by SO-IL, is extremely light, like a tent, so it can be transported by one person, with its concave top allowing it to catch leaves that provide shade.P.YGROS.C by THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes with Jared Laucks) consists of 3- D lattice structures wrapped into the shape of pipes.The process and results of the competition are to be published in a book entitled Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years.While the project was clearly designed as a more universalist take on a Jewish ritual, Foer said that Sukkah City has been received positively by the Jewish community as well.“One of the goals of the project was to do something that would bring together Jews from across the spectrum in a way that was, at once, totally kosher and halachic, but also totally contemporary, and bringing the best of modern architecture to an ancient design challenge,” Foer said.
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Artists and architects from around the world compete for glory in New York’s ‘Sukkah City,’ where the winning entry will be on display in Union Square.
Gathering by Dale Suttle, So Sugita and Ginna Nguyen, was designed to be “calculated yet unpredictable,” providing both shade and openness.Blo Puff by the Brooklyn-based design team Bittertang attempted to create an acoustic and visual refuge from the bustling city.The goal of Star Cocoon, which is made of bamboo and rattan materials, by Volkan Alkanoglu is to encourage communication within a community.Shim Sukkah by tinder, tinker uses the shim, a wedge usually used to fill an unplanned gap, as its building block.Single Thread by Matter Practice, is constructed by looping a continuous wire around a bamboo scaffold, which will eventually be removed.Sukkah of the Signs by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, is made of signs purchased from the homeless.LOG by Kyle May and Scott Abrahams, comprises glass walls supporting a cedar log.In Tension by SO-IL, is extremely light, like a tent, so it can be transported by one person, with its concave top allowing it to catch leaves that provide shade.P.YGROS.C by THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes with Jared Laucks) consists of 3- D lattice structures wrapped into the shape of pipes.The process and results of the competition are to be published in a book entitled Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years.While the project was clearly designed as a more universalist take on a Jewish ritual, Foer said that Sukkah City has been received positively by the Jewish community as well.“One of the goals of the project was to do something that would bring together Jews from across the spectrum in a way that was, at once, totally kosher and halachic, but also totally contemporary, and bringing the best of modern architecture to an ancient design challenge,” Foer said.