Mexican designer Norberto Miranda has designed inflatable structures that look like massive beans to host an exhibition that celebrates the traditions and intersection of Mexican gastronomy, music and culture.

Norberto Miranda and architecture firm Estudio 3.14 created the structures for a travelling exhibition called Tierra Fértil, which translates as Fertile Land. The inflatable design means that the structures can easily be moved around.
The team chose the bean shape because of the foods importance in Mexican culture and the Mesoamerican agricultural practices. Each plastic structure is 550 square feet (51 square metres) and features the distinct patterns and colouring based on three bean varieties.

Large white and black patches cover the exterior of the "little cow bean", tan skin speckled with brown spots wraps the "june flower", and the "may flower" bean is coated with a purple-brown and peppered with dozens of tan markings. "The whole experience is designed as a prêt-à-porter piece that meets travelling informal commerce, tianguis, Mexican marketplace, culture," Miranda said. "Its own constitution is a mix of different traditional jobs with their own creative input, resulting in a pop culture driven project."
Photograph by Maj Lindstrom
Aprendiendo con Cultura, a Mexican organisation that promotes social and cultural projects commissioned Norberto Miranda and Estudio 3.14 to create the structures for Tierra Fér...