2024-11-24T00:12:52-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149956014/check-out-this-big-designed-bouncy-castle-beer-pavilion Nicholas Korody 2016-07-05T13:40:00-04:00 >2020-11-02T11:58:40-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rz/rz79xou3f8v70s9l.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Bjarke Ingels Group designed an inflatable beer pavilion for the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark. The 120 square meter, portable pavilion can be inflated in seven minutes and is equipped with purple LED lights.</p><p>Nicknamed FOAM, the pavilion will travel to a series of festivals around Denmark over the course of the year. Next year it will travel to Aarhus in celebration of the city being named the European Capital of Culture 2017.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/ra/ratciugyu3umk7jn.jpg"></p><p>"The idea of using a bouncy castle came about because one can create any kind of structure with this type of material,&rdquo; BIG partner Jakob Lange was quoted as saying in an <a href="http://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/architecture-design/Bjarke-Ingels-Group-Roskilde-Music-Festival-Tuborg-Carlsberg-architecture-design-pavilions/325169?utm_campaign=digest&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">article</a> for CLAD Global. "Producing it turned out to be much more difficult though than we had initially expected. The first manufacturer completely gave up and we were under enormous time pressure.</p><p>"But the end-result is the most beautiful thing you could imagine.&rdquo;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/h5/h5tz4vqd0ie95cvy.jpg"></p><p>For more news about BIG, check out these links:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149953927/inga-saffron-calls-big-s-new-navy-yard-building-mesmerizing-reminiscent-of-a-richard-serra-sculpture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inga Saffron calls BIG's new Navy Yard building "mesmerizing", "reminiscent of a...</a></li></ul>