The Sukkah is a symbolic recreation of the traditional structure built by the Israelites during their journey in Egypt. For twelve years now, Tulane architecture students team with the Hillel Jewish Center to design and build a temporary Sukkah to be used during the week-long celebration of Sukkot. Each structure must meet the traditional requirements.
Our design was a collaborative effort between 6 students, and built by 10 students. Our goal this year was to make a sukkah conducive for social distanced building and enjoying. We decided to create a parametric design which could be fabricated by a CNC mill machine, giving us pre-fabricated panels, which cut down construction time significantly. We used grasshopper to generate the curves, a picture of the script is included here.
Design Team: Seth Laskin, Lizzie Bateman, Ethan Lewis, Jacob Silberman, Jacob Taylor, Ryan Harnish
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