'what is it?',
the answer, the world’s first inflatable concert hall, dubbed Arc Nova,
the mobile venue toured the earthquake and tsuami-ravaged areas of Tohoku,
delivering hope and encouragement in the form of music, resembling, from the
outside, a gigantic purple balloon, the concert hall has now landed in central
Tokyo, where it will host film and musical events through October 4, 2017,
in 2013, renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and
British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor teamed up to create the Ark Nova,
made from strips of purple polyester, Ark Nova, after its
2-hour inflation, stands roughly 60 ft wide and 100 ft high with a capacity of
500 people, the wooden benches were completed during a workshop in 2013, in
which volunteers showed up and used wood from tsunami-damaged cedar trees at
Zuiganji Temple in Matsushima,
Arc Nova was installed in the open field of Tokyo Midtown
and opens to the public on September 20, 2017, various film screenings and
musical events are scheduled through October 4 so you should check out the website for details if you plan to go, the structure got Me to thinking if other useful buildings could be made this way and taken to disaster sites, then inflated to house people or provide a building for say a mobile hospital?
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