在夏季，BIG在该博物馆创建的迷宫吸引了超过5万人到访。现在的热到冷展览则是通过60多个BIG的项目模型，展示BIG在全球从最热到最冷地方的建筑设计成果---以及BIG是如何应对当地的气候与文化。这些模型都被吊离到2层回廊人视点的位置。游客围绕回廊，了解世界上的各种天气（包含极端天气）以及建筑所作出对应，还有建筑对不同文化，政治，法规的回应。

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, travels from 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 60 architectural 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.  

建筑永远不会发生在实验室。建筑总是回应着一系列现有条件--文化，景观，气候等等。建筑师无法逃避这些问题。热到冷展览旨在展现出建筑对背景和气候的回应，并反过来以其中的艺术，思考，框架影响我们的生活。没有比国家博物馆更棒的展览场所回顾我们过去六年中内容丰富的工作内容。BIG创始人 Bjarke Ingels对gooood如是说。

"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.

该展览中60个项目中的20个都是第一次亮相---由摄影师Iwan Baan用其高超摄影技术抓拍。除此之外，展览也有影片展出，相关书籍购买，甚至可以再提供的程序上到亚马逊网上在线预订BIG的，由Taschen出版社出版的700页书籍。

国家博物馆馆长 Susan Piedmont-Palladino对这个独特的展览做出高度评价：从热到冷展览并不把场地作为展览用地，而是把其看做建筑场地，在场所中的阳光，声音，人流都是背景的一部分，如同他们设计建筑般，BIG建筑师对场地的把握与处理让游客更身临其境，拥有切身感受，仿佛建筑师直接面对他们在讲故事。

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 Bêka and 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.

image © Matthew Carbone