Every autumn, during the month of Tishri (September/October) the Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, New York are the focus of a drastic transformation. In order to commemorate the Exodus, a temporary structure known as a sukkah (plural: sukkot) must be built outdoors and lived in for seven days.

This tradition originates the temporary existence of a makeshift settlement, superimposed onto the urban fabric of the contemporary city. The project began with the documentation of the phenomenon in the Hassidic Jewish neighbourhood of Williamsburg, which is inhabited by the Satmar community, and has continued throughout all Brooklyn’s Jewish neighbourhoods, such as Borough Park, a district in the centre of Brooklyn inhabited mainly by the Lubavitch and Bovov communities, as well as the Jewish neighbourhoods of Crown Heights, Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Midwood.

This photographic essay places its emphasis on a particular architectural typology and the codes that establish it. Its central idea is nomadism as a symbolic shift: from the stable to the precarious and from protection to vulnerability. The subject of this series is as much the cubicle as the social dynamics, the macro-political and the historic situation that shape it.