Interactive 'Icebergs' exhibit is up in D.C.'s National Building Museum
ICEBERGS, an immersive installation, aims to emphasize current themes of landscape representation, geometry, and construction at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
The exhibit, designed by James Corner Field Operations (whose major projects include New York City's High Line and Chicago’s Navy Pier) represents an underwater world of glacial ice fields spanning the museum’s Great Hall.
The structures are built of reusable construction materials such as scaffolding and polycarbonate paneling.
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Visitors will have a panoramic view of the entire exhibit from inside the tallest iceberg that towers over the "water line," cross an undersea bridge and relax among caverns and grottoes on the ocean floor.
Visitors will also be able to sample Japanese kakigōri shaved-ice snacks provided by Daikaya restaurant.
“ICEBERGS invokes the surreal underwater-world of glacial ice fields,” said James Corner, founder and director of James Corner Field Operations in a press release.
“Such a world is both beautiful and ominous given our current epoch of climate change, ice melt, and rising seas. The installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement, and interaction, as in an unfolding landscape of multiples distinct from a static, single object.”
ICEBERGS will be open to the public July 2 – September 5, 2016 as part of the Museum’s imaginative Summer Block Party series.
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