bombolla pavillion for the animac festival, in Lleida

The balloon was designed to identify Lleida’s International Animated Film Festival – Animac. Placed on public space, this element represents, from the outside, the festival. Its interior is the info point during daytime and guest/producer’s restaurant on evenings.

Situation
The balloon must be flexible enough to be placed in any exterior public space {street, square...} It should also be possible to place inside {room, pavillion}, due to its adaptable shape and size.

Materials
The chosen material for the inflatable balloon is PVC together with a resistant synthetic fibre.
The result consists on a semi-transparent surface where images are projected, which makes interior/ exterior communication possible. A perimetral bench, made out of sandbags heavy enough to fasten the balloon to the floor sets the base. A layer of textile waste from a neighbour factory is added to make the bench comfortable.
Once the festival is over, sand is for sale and textiles go back to the factory.

Storage
Once empty, the balloon takes very little space. This is important once it does not mean a storage problem for the town council while the balloon is not in use.

Lighting
The initial idea was to make the bubble work like a lantern for the public square.
Unfortunately that was not possible due to the square’s lamps’ light intensity. As an alternative, diverse second hand floor lamps were placed along the bench perimeter. These lamps created comfortable inviting ambiences, providing individual spaces of agreeable dimension and scale inside the bubble.