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Today, the National Building Museum unveiled renderings of "Fun House," the summer installation by Snarkitecture that will fill the Washington, D.C., museum’s great hall in a mere couple of months. The second installation by the New York–based design collaborative in the five-year history of the museum’s Summer Block Party series, the exhibition explores Snarkitecture’s first comprehensive museum exhibition to date.

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Visitors will be presented with a freestanding house, designed by the firm, filled with interactive rooms that recall previous installations. In the “front yard” to the west, a custom-recreated installation of “A Memorial Bowing” (which the firm debuted in 2012 in Miami) will greet visitors before they move into the house proper, where rooms are given over to recreations of "Dig" (a carved polystyrene maze of spaces that was first installed at New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2011) and "Drift" (a topography of inflated tubes that appeared at Design Miami/ in 2012), as well as other as-yet unnamed installations created for "Play House." One visitors emerge from the immersive rooms, they will end up in the house’s backyard to the east, which will feature a playhouse and a kidney-shaped pool filled with recyclable plastic balls that hearkens back to their 2015 Summer Block Party installation “The Beach.”

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Given Snarkitecture’s reputation for reimagining the built environment, one could definitely ask: "Why a house?"

“Besides its symbolic value, the house stands for the basic icon in the field of architecture,” said exhibition curator Maria Cristina Didero in a press release. “A simple and evocative concept, a house is the first thing most children learn to draw spontaneously, adding a triangle to a rectangular shape. In the occasion of 'Fun House,' starting from the aforementioned simple outline, the conventional household is regarded and totally re-imagined to contextualize the unconventional theoretical journey of Snarkitecture’ s first decade of activities.”

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"Fun House" will open at the National Building Museum July 4, and will run through Sept. 3.