Lawn
Client
National Building Museum
Location
Washington D.C.
Sector
Public Space
Cultural Experiences
Size
30,000 square feet
Awards
Interior Design Best of Year Award
“Lawn is more than a place; it’s a state of mind, a shared memory, a space in which to move, or be still, with the freedom to decide for yourself what to do — alone, together, or alone together.”
Continuing the National Building Museum's tradition of Summer Block Party installations, we introduced Lawn in Summer 2019. Celebrating and exploring the public and private identities of a lawn as an iconic communal space for interaction and performance, we created a space to inspire people to share stories, make memories, and daydream.
Our installation is a vast, sloping green space that consumes the first two bays of the Museum’s Great Hall. Arriving at the base, guests are met with a green expanse, set on a graceful incline and dotted with clusters of communal lounging areas. Hammocks suspended from the ceiling contain hidden speakers programmed with pre-recorded audio from over 20 prominent American storytellers.
The Lawn reimagined a nostalgic, outdoor leisure space by bringing it to the indoors to create a heightened emotional and sensory experience.
We introduced play to Lawn with our firefly chasing app where visitors can experience augmented reality. Available in AppStore and Google Play as NBM Lawn
Lawn: Fun Facts
Selected Press
05/05/2019, NBC Washington — “The National Building Museum's Summer Installation Is a Giant Indoor Lawn”
07/03/2019, Interior Design — “Rockwell Group's "Lawn" Opens at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.”
07/04/2019, Architect — “The Lawn, Designed by the Lab at Rockwell Group, Opens July 4 at the National Building Museum”
07/08/2019, Architects Newspaper — “The LAB at Rockwell Group puts a park inside the National Building Museum”
07/08/2019, Dezeen — “Rockwell Group builds sloped Lawn in Washington DC's National Building Museum”
07/09/2019, Surface Magazine — “Rockwell Group Blankets the National Building Museum in Greenery”
07/25/2019, Wallpaper — “Rockwell Lab goes green for summer at National Building Museum in Washington D.C.”