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The world's first inflatable concert hall, in the disaster-hit northeastern Japanese town of Matsushima, Lucerne Festival Ark Nova runs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 13, 2013. (ARK NOVA)

The concert hall for Ark Nova seats 500 and can be inflated within two hours. (ARK NOVA)

Lucerne Festival Ark Nova used tsunami-damaged cedar trees from the region as materials to create acoustic reflectors/boards and chairs in the Ark Nova hall. (ARK NOVA)

The interior is a single uninterrupted space which, depending on the arrangement of equipment, offers a multi-stage format that can accommodate various events from orchestras to chamber music, jazz, the performing arts or exhibitions. (ARK NOVA)

In a nod to the story of Noah's Ark, the project was named Ark Nova (new ark) with the hope that it will become a symbol of recovery after the great earthquake and tsunami disaster of 2011. (ARK NOVA)

The Lucerne Festival Ark Nova runs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 13, 2013, in Matsushima City in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (ARK NOVA)

The concert hall was created by Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor. An air-inflated membrane structure, it can be folded up with the interior equipment dismantled and loaded on a truck for traveling around the region. (ARK NOVA)

The Lucerne Festival, based in Switzerland, has launched Lucerne Festival Ark Nova, a project to bring hope via music to the disaster areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck on March 3, 2011. (ARK NO