Extremely Flexible Design Bubble Museum

This is diller scofidio + renfro hirshhorn museum bubble. The director of the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden plans to erect at the cultural institution. There’s a large translucent fabric ‘bubble’ that will swell out of the top of the museum’s internal court yard. It creates an air of lightness, makes the building seem as if it were ready to float upwards into the sky.  The balloon-like form will be stabilized by a gigantic tube of water, encircling the interior structure.  There’s a series of large steel cables that tethered to the inner tube on one end and the roof-level truss at the other end. It will provide structural support to hold it in place.

The design is extremely flexible. It can be blown up in a short time. Besides that, the interior can be easily reconfigured with each installation. It allows the museum to respond to cultural issues of the moment in a timely manner. The visitors will be able to enter the balloon via a short, tube-shaped corridor located between the museum’s lounge and central courtyard.  The translucent blue skin of the lounge will progressively become more transparent at its base. There’s the main hall that will be a more formal space. This hall houses 1 000 guests in a semi-circular pattern around a temporary stage.