A winning SukkahPDX 2014 design from pelizziarchitettura
By Bustler Editors|
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014
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Gianluca Pelizzi of pelizziarchitettura sent us his winning proposal for the annual SukkahPDX competition. Organized by the Oregon Jewish Museum and the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, SukkahPDX invites designers and artists to propose temporary livable — and sustainably built — sukkahs. Sukkahs are outdoor domestic structures constructed every year for the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot.
The SukkahPDX jury selected up to nine winning sukkahs, which were publicly exhibited during Sukkot 2014 in October. Supplied with a modest $400 budget for installation, winners also had to provide a plan for the continued use of their sukkah or its component materials after the exhibition.
Have a look at pelizziarchitettura's proposal right below.
Project description:
"CONCEPT. Sukkarboard is a temporary, light-weight shelter dealing with the concepts of precariousness and time as founding elements to reinterpret the original sense of the Exodus. Everyday materials such as cardboard boxes and news papers thanks to the paper-mache technique gain a second life and become the loose blocks to shelter a shady sacred hut. The loose box arrangement triggers a continuous transition between lights and shadows, fullness and emptiness, material and void, presence and absence, dark and bright, inside and outside, sturdy and precarious. The true identity of this place lies in the ever-changing transition, balance and fight, between these opposite entities."
"CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM.
Construction technique. The paper-mache technique consists of applying paper-strips on a supporting structure. For the realization of the Sukkahboard, newspapers are torn into strips which are soaked into vinyl glue diluted with water. The strips are then used to upholster with three layers the cardboard boxes. Once dry, the boxes are sturdy enough to withstand the shelter weight.
Walls. The sukkah walls are built by loosely combin e the boxes on a square plan arrangement. Laid on a pallet base the boxes of the first row are weighted down with some bricks, stones or sand bags. The wall boxes are then tied together with paper adhesive tape where needed. The tape is covered with a final layer of paper-mache.
Roof. The Sechach is realized using olive branches sparsely laid on un-treated two by four timber posts. More shade than sun is al lowed to get in. Beyond the vinyl glue properties, a water-repelling paint is used to further water-proofing the walls."
"RECYCLING. Recycling by re-using is a highly sustainable approach to design but in this case it should mostly be seen as a metaphor of giving a second life, a second chance and hope, to things as the Exodus time can be seen as a transition forward a second and better life following the Egyptian oppression."
"FEASIBILITY, TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC. Paper-mache cardboard boxes will be realized off-site well in advance the installation period. At the same time timber posts and pallet base will be prepared in advance. Once on site the works will regard the laid down of the pallet base, the piling up of the wall boxes and their tape fixing, the positioning of the roof timber posts and branches. This on site work could be done in 1 or 2 days.
The cost of the row materials is very limited and the chances to find them even for free – recycled cardboard boxes and pallet, old newspapers – are very high."
All images courtesy of pelizziarchitettura_gianluca pelizzi
Additional project photos can be found in the gallery below.
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