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Longitudinal Elevation Section AA' Section BB' Section CC' Section DD' Section EE' Section FF' Transverse Elevation

Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Maximum Volume Rope Surface

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19 feet

3 handbreadths

10ft

10 feet

1 handbreadth

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1 T5 �uorescent tube 48 x5/8 2 L steel pro�le 8 x8 x1 3 custom-madenatural �ber rope 2000'x5/8 4 manila rope as �ooring 10'x5/8 5 L steel pro�le 6 x6 x3/4

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“Rope Towards the Sky” aims to construct the sukkah with only one gesture, oneelement; one single rope. There is no distinction between the sukkah’s four walls and itsschach. The four-sided surface that de�nes the walls intersects itself, transforming intoschach and enclosing the sukkah. This surface holds to a steel structure measuring 10 feetx 19 feet x 20 cubits, the maximum allowed volume.

Schach must be made of “something that once grew in the ground”, and is preparedspeci�cally to be used as schach. A 2000 feet long rope made from manila hemp or othernatural �ber could therefore be used as schach. It is the sukkahs’s most important andessential element, and so rightly tailor-made.

Our design questions current sukkah bulding materials and methods, anchoring itsdimensioning and shape in the most elemental biblical parameters.

Study Model

Full-scale Rope Segment

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