You can see it as a ship in a giant bottle. After 50 years of exhibition in a dry dock, the 135-year-old Greenwhich racing tea clipper begins to fall apart. For this piece of history, a little youth bath would be very welcomed. But restoring the structure is a dilemma. Whether it’s kept out of public sight, whether its surroundings get 3 kilos of dust and smokes a day during the operation.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and his five partners brought “the” idea: They will be building an inflatable structure that envelopes the boat, and keeps its design by merely replicating the shape of a sailing boat.
The bubble is about 76 meters high. Walls of the shipyard are sustained by Swiss-invented “Tensarity” structural system of rigid pneumatic beams, as reports Hugh Pearman for the Sunday Times (via vestal).
Now imagine how could we reuse this kind of technology for more residential purposes. Imagine what kind of inflatable shelters we could rapidly build for natural disaster victims. Or how giant trees we could temporary enclose in a anti-pollution bubble? Isn’t that neat? What do you think?
You can see it as a ship in a giant bottle. After 50 years of exhibition in a dry dock, the 135-year-old Greenwhich racing tea clipper begins to fall apart. For this piece of history, a little youth bath would be very welcomed. But restoring the structure is a dilemma. Whether it’s kept out of public sight, whether its surroundings get 3 kilos of dust and smokes a day during the operation.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and his five partners brought “the” idea: They will be building an inflatable structure that envelopes the boat, and keeps its design by merely replicating the shape of a sailing boat.
The bubble is about 76 meters high. Walls of the shipyard are sustained by Swiss-invented “Tensarity” structural system of rigid pneumatic beams, as reports Hugh Pearman for the Sunday Times (via vestal).
Now imagine how could we reuse this kind of technology for more residential purposes. Imagine what kind of inflatable shelters we could rapidly build for natural disaster victims. Or how giant trees we could temporary enclose in a anti-pollution bubble? Isn’t that neat? What do you think?
You can see it as a ship in a giant bottle. After 50 years of exhibition in a dry dock, the 135-year-old Greenwhich racing tea clipper begins to fall apart. For this piece of history, a little youth bath would be very welcomed. But restoring the structure is a dilemma. Whether it’s kept out of public sight, whether its surroundings get 3 kilos of dust and smokes a day during the operation.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and his five partners brought “the” idea: They will be building an inflatable structure that envelopes the boat, and keeps its design by merely replicating the shape of a sailing boat.
The bubble is about 76 meters high. Walls of the shipyard are sustained by Swiss-invented “Tensarity” structural system of rigid pneumatic beams, as reports Hugh Pearman for the Sunday Times (via vestal).
Now imagine how could we reuse this kind of technology for more residential purposes. Imagine what kind of inflatable shelters we could rapidly build for natural disaster victims. Or how giant trees we could temporary enclose in a anti-pollution bubble? Isn’t that neat? What do you think?
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Very cool. I’ve seen pictures of the inflatable MASH units, and I’ve been in one inflatable structure that was used for a market style fair. I think this was one of the cooler buildings made this way, and an interesting twist on a standard in art.
Tags: Architecture, Art, Interesting
