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Mannahite Sukkah
Mannahite Sukkah
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$0 - 10K
For the Sukkah City Competition this summer, we designed our Sukkah with a narrative in mind. We believed that this narrative was relevant to New Yorkers, to the Jewish people, and to any one who enjoys re-imagining our past.
The Mannahite Sukkah is a response to a history constructed from different histories of different peoples, some still living and some long extinct. The narrative interlaces their common characteristics - nomadism, mythology, and relation to the harvest cycle into a story that helps us relate to them as well as to a simpler time of existence on this island.
Extrapolations from a fabricated historical document spawn the tradition which serves as user manual to the structure. The resulting structure is a skeleton for that ritual, animated by the lives of its users.
The Mannahite Sukkah offers relief from the monotony of 8 days in a confined space by taking on an adaptable form. Rotation accommodates and imposes various uses: sitting/eating, standing/dancing/praying, and lounging/sleeping. The porous perimeter structure allows for any wall to become the roof, while modular components enable seamless expansion or combination.
Our project sparks the imagination about what life on this island might have been, and how people may have lived. The team working on this project--Shai Fuller, Yuval Borochov, and Erin Shnier had a great time thinking about these things, and we hope that our project invited others to think about them too.
The Mannahite Sukkah is a response to a history constructed from different histories of different peoples, some still living and some long extinct. The narrative interlaces their common characteristics - nomadism, mythology, and relation to the harvest cycle into a story that helps us relate to them as well as to a simpler time of existence on this island.
Extrapolations from a fabricated historical document spawn the tradition which serves as user manual to the structure. The resulting structure is a skeleton for that ritual, animated by the lives of its users.
The Mannahite Sukkah offers relief from the monotony of 8 days in a confined space by taking on an adaptable form. Rotation accommodates and imposes various uses: sitting/eating, standing/dancing/praying, and lounging/sleeping. The porous perimeter structure allows for any wall to become the roof, while modular components enable seamless expansion or combination.
Our project sparks the imagination about what life on this island might have been, and how people may have lived. The team working on this project--Shai Fuller, Yuval Borochov, and Erin Shnier had a great time thinking about these things, and we hope that our project invited others to think about them too.
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