“HOT TO COLD” from the #Arabian #Desert to the #Finnish #tundra

Quando l’architettura si modella alle condizioni atmosferiche, la mostra “HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptationtakes” dal 24 gennaio al 20 agosto 2015 al National Building Museum di Washington, esplora le forze che plasmano le nostre città e danno forma agli edifici. Il clima si fa elemento centrale che modella spazio e paesaggio, genera colori e plasma culture e tipicità.

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AROUND THE GLOBE IN 800 FEET – HOT TO COLD OPENS AT THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

Through the scorching heat of the Arabian Desert to the unforgiving chill of the Finnish tundra, HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptationtakes visitors on a journey across the globe to explore the forces that shape our cities and buildings. BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group’s first North-American exhibition runs at the National Building Museum from January 24^th , 2015 – August 30^th, 2015, and is accompanied by a 700-page catalogue fromTaschen.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of the summer blockbuster BIG Maze, which attracted more than 50,000 visitors, BIG returns to the National Building Museum with a behind-the-scenes look at the studio’s creative process. The exhibition, HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation, travelsfrom the hottest to the coldest parts of our planet and explores how BIG´s designs are shaped by their cultural and climatic contexts. More than 60architectural models, mock-ups and prototypes are suspended at the second-floor balconies of the museum’s historic Great Hall, turning the architecture of the National Building Museum into the architecture of the exhibition.

As the visitors move through the exhibition, they learn about the harsh demands of climatic extremes, where architecture becomes more about shading from the heat or sheltering from the cold. The milder or more temperate environments often leave more room for other factors, such as culture, program, politics and legislation to shape the buildings.

“Architecture never happens in the clinical conditions of a lab. It is always responding to a series of existing conditions – the context, the culture, the landscape, the climate. Our climate is the one thing we can’t escape – the one condition we always have to respond to. HOT TO COLD is conceived as a colorful exploration of how architecture evolves in response to its context and climate and as an artistic contemplation of how life in return reacts to the framework created by the architecture. I can’t imagine a greater venue than the National Building Museum for this journey, looking back at our work and massive transformation over the last six years from both sides of the Atlantic”, says Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.

HOT TO COLD encompasses 60 of BIG’s recent projects of which 20 are premiered for the first time, captured by Iwan Baan´s masterful photography. The exhibition also features films that describe life as it occurs within and around BIG’s buildings in a gallery on the museum’s second floor. Films by Ila Bêkaand Louise Lemoine, Kaspar Astrup Schroder, WAAITT and Squint/Opera document the life that emerges once the cranes have left and the buildings are complete. The accompanying catalog by Taschen is designed in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister and is available now at the National Building Museum Shop in-person and online, as well as for preorder on Amazon.  

Curator Susan Piedmont-Palladino says that BIG extended its singular design sensibility to the creation of this exhibition: “What’s so special about HOT TO COLD is that BIG has perceived the National Building Museum more as a site for a project, rather than as a venue for an exhibition. That means that the sunlight, the sounds, and the sights of the Great Hall will all be part of the context of the display, just as they are for a building in the city. BIG has a very distinctive voice, and our visitors will have a very direct experience, as if the architect is talking, telling stories directly to them.”

HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation is generously sponsored by Realdania, National Endowment for the Arts, Danish Agency for Culture, The Durst Organization, Howard Hughes Corporation, Junckers, Terra Group, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Graphisoft, The Third Fate, Queen of Denmark and HRH Prince Henrik’s Foundation, Rose Rock Group, Albany, Arcadis, Fritz Hansen, Furniture from Scandinavia by Annette Rachlin, Georg Jensen, Louis Poulsen, Ramboll, SAS, Thornton Tomasetti, AIAIAI, Fritz Hansen, HAY, Visit Denmark, Carlsberg, and Holcim. Additional gratitude to the Embassy of Denmark for its assistance and support.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Daria Pahhota, dp@big.dk or +1 646 541 1411

Emma Filar, efilar@nbm.org or +1 202 272 2448, ext. 3458.

NAME: HOT TO COLD: AN ODYSSEY OF ARCHITECTURAL ADAPTATION

LOCATION: NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, WASHINGTON D.C

SIZE: 800 FEET

COLLABORATORS: SAGMEISTER & WALSH, IWAN BAAN, KASPAR ASTRUP SCHRODER, BEKA PARTNERS, SQUINTOPERA, MARTIN DE THURAH, WAAITT, HIGHWIRE, BIG IDEAS

PARTNERS IN CHARGE: Bjarke Ingels, Kai-Uwe Bergmann

PROJECT LEADER

Iannis Kandyliaris

CO-PROJECT LEADER

Alana Goldweit

TEAM NYC

Chi-Chi Lin, Julien Beauchamp-Roy, Natalie Kwee, Aiden Bowman, Daria Pahhota, Daeho Lee, John Hilmes, Sarah Habib, Sarkis Sarkisyan, Haochen Yu, Emily Watts, Eva Mikkelsen, Maureen Rahman, Mateusz Rek,Wells Barber, Armen Menendian, Wojciech Swarowski, Daniel Kidd, Nicholas Coffee, Anna Katrina Lockwood, Karen Shiue, Iben Falconer, Martin Voelkle, David Spittler, Otilia Pupezeanu, Terry Lallak

TEAM CPH

Julia Boromissza, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Toni Mateu, Andrea Scalco, Joanna Jakubowska, Aino Elina Aho

Maximiliano Aldunate Rieutor, Leonardo Nahuel Musso Miranda, Alberte Danvig, Julieta Muzzillo, Katarína Máčková, Timothy Burwell, Agnieszka Filipowicz, Lakatos Edmond, Adam Buśko, George Abraham, Sida Zhang, Paddy Fernandez

ABOUT

The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to advancing the quality of the built environment by educating people about its impact on their lives. Through its exhibitions, educational programs, online content, and publications, the Museum has become a vital forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the world we build for ourselves. Public inquiries: 202.272.2448 or visit www.nbm.org. Connect with us on Twitter: @BuildingMuseum and Facebook.

BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and development. With an international team of more than 200 people led by 12 Partners, BIG works on projects across a broad spectrum of industries and in more than 20 countries worldwide. BIG looks at how urban environments can increase the quality of life, designing cities and buildings as double ecosystems that are both ecologically and economically profitable. BIG is the designer of the $2 billion National Mall and Smithsonian refurbishment.www.big.dk