Bouncy Buildings is an annual public project presenting instant architecture from an international group of architects.

Each year Bouncy Buildings focuses on one country, inviting the best established and emerging talent from architecture to design a ‘bouncy castle’. The inflatable buildings will be exhibited together as a series of outdoor events where the public will be able to test the results. The buildings will be on tour during 2007, travelling to London, Stockholm and Tokyo.

For 2007 Bouncy Buildings has invited three architects from the UK:

Sergison Bates Architects
Peter Cook + CRAB Studio
The AOC

Bouncy castles are associated with children, play and leisure time, their aesthetics most often borrowed from the world of fairytales. But can bouncy castles be used to investigate issues of contemporary architecture? By testing new possibilities for architecture through the large scale and temporary qualities of bouncy buildings, a large public audience will have the opportunity to interact with full scale architectural models. The mobility of the structures allows us to show them in very different contexts and cultures.

Each year we will be commissioning a new series of bouncy buildings from a selected country, eventually building a bouncy town, or even a city, designed by the world's most outstanding architects.

We will be organising seminars, workshops and competitions alongside the main events to promote further public debate around issues of taste, tradition and the future development of our towns and cities.