ark nova inflatable concert hall to tour japan's flood-hit areas
ark nova inflatable concert hall to tour japan’s flood-hit areas
image © lucerne festival arknova 2013
‘ark nova’, the world’s first inflatable concert hall, will soon tour areas of japan that were devastated in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. designed by british sculptor anish kapoor and japanese architect arata isozaki, the mobile structure will host world-class concerts, workshops, and both traditional and contemporary performance as part of the lucerne festival ark nova. the balloon-like architecture is stationed in matsushima city, which is still healing after being struck by the natural disaster, and the team behind its creation hopes to deliver encouragement and positivity in the form of music. the temporary structure holds about 500 people, whose luminescent purple walls create a billowing interior fitted with handcrafted benches and a stage. take a look at designboom’s coverage of the creative development, process sketches, and initial renderings of the project here.
as seen from above, ark nova will host world-class concerts and events
image © lucerne festival arknova 2013
the huge purple bubble is made from a thin membrane that can be easily inflated
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a team working to inflate the mobile unit
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the balloon-like architecture easily deflates and can become a temporary, movable structure
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interior purple walls billow into a spherical shape
image © lucerne festival arknova 2013
colorful magenta walls are made of a thin, balloon-like sheet
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the temporary structure holds about 500 people
image © lucerne festival arknova 2013
ark nova, lit from within
image © lucerne festival arknova 2013
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Cool. But would you want to stay around nuclear radiated Cesium 137 countryside ? Good luck with your cancer guys…
Wow, it looks amazing !
At least the world gets to experience what Diller Scofidio+ Renro once envisioned.
Brilliant and beautiful. Circus tent/womb combination could certainly help people feel hopeful.
Unless it scares the eyebrows off them. (Tsunami survivors imagining collapses, explosions, etc.)
However, it could actually do both.
In taking the risk to enter, and be alive within a seemingly fragile structure that references many tough, natural shapes (sea urchin, cabochon jewel & more-) the emotional reward of being held and safe within could be healing beyond any words.
That is definately a unique approach, looks amazing, I think it would look better in tourquise though.
I love everything that Anish Kapoor does. The man is an artistic genius.
Beautiful space and also from the outside.
look back even further than diller et al – Haus-Rucker, Missing Link, Coop Himmelblau, Ant Farm, all circa 1970
I would not enter that place without a good sharp knife. Looks like another disaster waiting to happen.
No If I were to have a pointy stick to poke it with.
Absolutely incredible for a temporary building space!
check out Murata Yutaka’s Fuji Pavilion and Floating Theatre Pavilion at Expo 70 Tokyo, if you want to see some great pioneering work in inflatables
sorry i meant Osaka Expo 70
Why would anyone want to bring an audience into an area heavily polluted with radioactive contamination?
They are not bringing the audience to this place; they are bringing the concert hall to the audience. The text reads:”…which is still healing after being struck by the natural disaster, and the team behind it’s creation hopes to deliver encouragement and positivity in the form of music. ”
That’s why.
breathtaking place to concertiı would like to be there