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“Flying Tower” - plan for inflatable building in Netherlands. Unclear if built.

“Flying Tower’ contributes to the publicity and potential of any urban area. It not only visualizes the future development but also creates space for public events.

The marked spot between the balloons offers space for exhibitions, meetings, projections, screenings, festivals and manifestations for everybody.

Anything can happen between the balloons.

The ‚Flying Tower’ evokes a positive expectation.

‚Flying Tower’ is inspired by the Swiss ‚Baugespann’

This methode of publishing future building plans in scale 1:1 on site exists in Switzerland already for a long time and is even part of the construction permit procedure.

In the country of direct democracy, the inhabitants are early involved in the process and can directly express their opinion about building plans to the municipalities.

The ‚Flying Tower’ project is directly linked with dealing with public space.

The negative effect of the internalisation of the public realm has been widely discussed. Shopping as the only remaining activity in the city has often been critized. The reciprocity of social security and well-functioning public space is evident.

‚Flying Tower’ defines a space and creates a location – the site convertes from an unused emptiness to a public attraction. ‚Flying Tower’ makes space public.