Sponsor: Reboot, Union Square Partnership
Type: Open, International
Location: New York
Language: English
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to professionals and students in architecture, design, and related fields.

Timetable:
1 July 2010 – Registration deadline
1 August 2010 – Submissions deadline
19-21 September 2010 - Installation

Jury:
Michael Arad
Ron Arad
Rick Bell
Allan Chochinov
Paul Goldberger
Steven Heller
Natalie Jeremijenko
Maira Kalman
Geoff Manaugh
Thom Mayne
Thomas de Monchaux
Ada Tolla
Adam Yarinsky

Awards:
A financial award will fund construction of top 12 entries.

Design Challenge:
Ostensibly the sukkah's religious function is to commemorate the temporary structures that the Israelites dwelled in during their exodus from Egypt, but it is also about universal ideas of transience and permanence as expressed in architecture. The sukkah is a means of ceremonially practicing homelessness, while at the same time remaining deeply rooted. It calls on us to acknowledge the changing of the seasons, to reconnect with an agricultural past, and to take a moment to dwell on – and dwell in – impermanence.

'Sukkah City: New York City' will re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists will be selected by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, and critics to be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from September 19-21, 2010.

One structure will be chosen by New Yorkers to stand and delight throughout the week-long festival of Sukkot as the Official Sukkah of New York City. The process and results of the competition, along with construction documentation and critical essays, will be published in the forthcoming book "Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years."

A local off-site indoor prefabrication location will be available before the September 19 installation.


All 12 structures will be used onsite at Union Square Park between September 19 and 21, and one will be chosen at that time to remain installed throughout the festival of Sukkot.


All of the structures will subsequently be displayed between September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens as part of the NYC Maker Faire.

Submission Requirements:
Entrants must submit their 'virtual board' online, on or before August 1 2010, by 6 PM EST.


Entrants will visually communicate their sukkah design as a concept and a construction. We encourage at least two of the following: 1) scaled plan, 2) section or elevation, 3) an interior or exterior perspective/rendering, and 4) a fabrication/construction detail or diagram. Entrants may include additional visuals demonstrating the restraint-based concept and fabrication of their sukkah. Entry may include up to 250 words of explanatory text. Exact visual and technical format for virtual board will be posted here on July 1. Entries are anonymous. Teams should choose one member to represent entry.


For more information, go to: http://www.sukkahcity.com/

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