032 REPORT


KLIMAHAUS 8°OST


Company: Christie Location: Bremerhaven, Germany


The Klimahaus 8°Ost in Bremerhaven looks like a giant droplet that a Bremen- based architect has placed upon the port facilities. It is a glass palace with a certain similarity to the Allianz Arena in Munich. The building is 125 metres long and 82 metres wide, a 1.5 kilometre path leads through the exhibition space of 11,500 sq metres, running (not literally) from Bremen via Switzerland into the deserts of Africa, the Antarctic and back via Samoa, Alaska and the Hallig islands. The journey follows the eighth degree of longitude, which not only gave its name to the project and marks its location, but also indicates the thematic aspects of route, places and climate zones.


Amptown System Company (ASC), responsible for the technical implementation was honoured with the Sinus - System Integration Award 2010 in the category, ‘information’, for its sophisticated installation of audio, light, video, media and control technology as well as for its creative system integration. Apart from the sophisticated audio, light and media technology used, some 60 Christie projectors are in operation at the Klimahaus. Much of what the planners had in mind could not have been implemented or would have been substantially less convincing without these Christie DS305+ projectors. The basic idea of the planners and developers Kunstraum and Petri & Tiemann - Bremen and Hamburg specialists for innovative, knowledge-based leisure worlds


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and artificial rooms - was to represent the subject of climate in all its aspects in or- der to make visitors curious, recognise connections and develop their own initiatives about climatic and environmental protection.


It takes two hours to do an initial walk around and at least half a day for those who want to listen to the explanations and watch the many films on their way. Specially- produced films run in the virtually countless rooms, chambers, caves, huts and landscapes. There are portraits of original inhabitants and tribal chiefs, of children or people with no opportunities of education, whose existence is threatened by climatic change.


While the rooms - that are separated by heavy slatted curtains - show the respec- tive places, the appropriate explanation in the Klimahaus is not provided by bland illustrated charts that nobody wants to read, but rather by films that are specially produced for each stage. This material accompanies the visitor through the entire Klimahaus - using some 100 screens and 60 projections. The projections hit all types of shapes and surfaces. Hundreds of objects were specifically designed and built for it and overlaid with a projection foil, most of this material was provided by Gerriets. It is clear that the positioning of the projectors is a decisive factor by which the Christie projectors were able to demonstrate their full power. “With almost each of the 60 we were facing the same problems,” explained


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