Gathering was a pavilion designed by Gathering (Ginna Nguyen, So Sugita, Dale Suttle) selected out of more than 600 international entries to be built in a “visionary village” in Union Square Park in September 2010. The distinguished jury included Thom Mayne, Paul Goldberger and Geoff Manaugh, among others. Gathering was then purchased by the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and exhibited in Washington, D.C. through October 2010. Sukkah City New York was a competition that sought to re-imagine the sukkah, a temporary shelter erected each year to remember the biblical exodus from Egypt. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The sukkah is meant to be inhabited for meals, entertainment, rest and congregating. Guided by a large set of strict, esoteric rules for construction, Sukkah City New York envisioned radical alternatives to the traditional post-and-polyester rectangular huts and displayed them in the appropriate urban environment of New York City.
