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Seven contemporary outdoor shelters will go on display at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education next month in honor of Sukkot, a Jewish harvest holiday. The temporary structures, called sukkahs, are the winners of an international design competition hosted by the Portland-based museum.

Sukkahs are constructed during Sukkot to commemorate the period in the agricultural cycle when people lived in the fields while harvesting autumn crops. Jewish tradition involves annual assembly of these structures to inhabit during the holiday, this year set for Oct. 8-15.

Two Oregon designers were honored in the third annual SukkahPDX competition: Portland-based Erwin-Simonson and the team of Julia Dimitrova and Petar lliev of Eugene. The other winners were Asherah Cinnamon of Portland, Maine; Gianluca Pelizzi of Parma, Italy; Matthew Au, Jessica Chen, Phirak Suon and Carlos Martinez-Horta of San Jose, Calif.; Friedmann Brueggemayer of Berkeley, Calif., and Maria Ibanez and Simon Kim of Cambridge, Mass.

The winning sukkah designs will be assembled in the Oregon Jewish Museum parking lot on Oct. 5-7, said Sandra Oberdorfer, museum program and education manager. A preview event will take place on Oct. 7, and the designs will be free to view Oct. 8-17 from dawn until dusk at the museum, 1953 N.W. Kearney St.

The design competition complements efforts by the museum to create contemporary context and connection to the themes of the ancient holiday, Oberdorfer said. A jury of design professionals selected the winning designs based on creative presentation of the symbols of Sukkot, she said.

Designers also were asked to make their spaces inviting.

鈥淭he holiday is really geared toward honoring the harvest cycle, but within that inviting people into your sukkah,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t’s really fitting for an architecture project because those are the questions that you ask when you’re designing a building.鈥�