2010年秋にコンペに当選しニューヨークで制作、展示してきたパビリオンです。今回から数回に分けてアップして行こうと思います。
以下はコンペやプロジェクトに関しての説明です。
Competition Description
A finalist in the Sukkah City 2010 competition, Gathering was 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 2010 was a competition that sought to re-imagine the Sukkah, a temporary shelter erected each year to remember the biblical exodus from Egypt. 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 2010 envisioned radical alternatives to the traditional post-and-polyester rectangular huts and displayed them in the appropriate urban environment of New York City.
ユダヤ教に古くから続くSukkahは、祖先の長い旅の出発を伝えて行くために毎年作られる、仮設のパビリオンである。Sukkah City New York 2010では 現代の観念から新しいデザインの Sukkahを試みる目的で開催された。本来、Sukkahは複雑な制約や秘儀的なルールに沿って制作され、ユダヤ教の三大祭の一つSukkotの期間、家族が集まり食事や休息をするための空間となる。このコンペでは伝統的な規則を守りつつ、より革新的なデザインが求められた。それらを都市の中のSukkahとしてニューヨークの公園の中で展示した。
Project Description
For forty years, the Israelites wandered the desert. They found rest from their wandering, communing with one another in shelters built of brush and trees. The city is similar. We wander its streets and get lost in its chaos. In the city we search for our own trees and our own temporary moments of urban intimacy. And whether wandering through the desert for forty years or through the city for a day, all people desire respite. The Sukkah is an icon for this relief from transience, and this project explores what a temporary structure can be in the urban environment through a non-linear design.
The relationship of urban transience to the non-linear system is in how singular bodies move towards certain attraction points within given conditions. The result is a calculated yet unpredictable pattern. As the sticks shift, they create a specific entry and space of occupation for the user. Now the movement and body of the user have a direct interaction with the structure itself. The aggregation of the branches and the degree range of enclosure also allows for movement, creating a variation of porosity. The angle and flow of the sticks shades the reflecting soul during the day and at night guides the dweller’s eyes and spirit up to the stars. This process creates a phenomenological space – through its randomness, light is manipulated and it is through this intangible material that a space becomes dynamic, reaching to the intangible spirit.
For forty years, the Israelites wandered the desert. They found rest from their wandering, communing with one another in shelters built of brush and trees. The city is similar. We wander its streets and get lost in its chaos. In the city we search for our own trees and our own temporary moments of urban intimacy. And whether wandering through the desert for forty years or through the city for a day, all people desire respite. The Sukkah is an icon for this relief from transience, and this project explores what a temporary structure can be in the urban environment through a non-linear design.
The relationship of urban transience to the non-linear system is in how singular bodies move towards certain attraction points within given conditions. The result is a calculated yet unpredictable pattern. As the sticks shift, they create a specific entry and space of occupation for the user. Now the movement and body of the user have a direct interaction with the structure itself. The aggregation of the branches and the degree range of enclosure also allows for movement, creating a variation of porosity. The angle and flow of the sticks shades the reflecting soul during the day and at night guides the dweller’s eyes and spirit up to the stars. This process creates a phenomenological space – through its randomness, light is manipulated and it is through this intangible material that a space becomes dynamic, reaching to the intangible spirit.
ユダヤ人の祖先は40年 余の間砂漠を彷徨い続けた。その間木の幹や小枝を集めて作った小屋の中でひとときの休息をとり、夜空の下で家族や仲間たちとのつながりを強めていった。現 在、都市での暮らしもその頃の砂漠の様に複雑で厳しい環境になりつつある。人々は自分の時間と安心できる場所を求めて都市の中を彷徨っている。それが長い 間砂漠の中を彷徨う人であれ、一日中都市の中を彷徨う人であれ、求めている物は安心して気を休める事のできる空間である。Sukkahとはこのような空間のアイコンであり、 Gathering は 非線形のデザインプロセスを用いてその空間を都市の中に表現している。
人間の動きが都市とこの非線形システムをつなげる重要な役割を担っている。 形成プロセスの中で全体のスティックが動きながら開口や内部空間をつくっていきその結果、不規則性を持ちながらも新しい秩序をもっている。 人間の動きと体は直接構造とのインタラクションを持ち、スティックの動きによって全体に多孔性を与えている。内部空間に入れば、スティック全体の流れが視 線を星空へと導く。不規則性や光をコントロールするプロセスによって生まれたこの空間は現象的な個性をもち、ダイナミックで人々の心へ訴えかける力をもっ ている。
Designers Bio
The team of Dale Suttle, So Sugita and Ginna Nguyen first united for a third-year studio project at the University of Pennsylvania, where they received their Masters of Architecture in Spring 2010. Collectively, the team’s experiences cross the fields of architecture, interior design, fine art and development. Their research interests of non-linear design and urbanism combine to create forms that carefully and creatively intervene within the city, resulting in new types of architecture and public space. Now spanning the globe, Dale Suttle resides in New York City, So Sugita in Hiroshima and Ginna Nguyen in Los Angeles.
デール＝サトル、杉田宗、ジーナ＝グエンの三人は2009年、ペンシルバニア大学大学院の3年目にデザインユニットを結成、その後2010年に同大学院より修士を取得。建築、インテリア、芸術、デブロップメントと幅広い分野のバックグラウンドを持ち、非線形デザインと都市の関係について興味を持つ。建築や都市の中に潜む新しいデザインの発見をニューヨーク、広島、ロサンゼルスの３つの都市で進めている。