Amptown System Company (ASC), responsible for the technical implementation was honoured with the Sinus System Integration Award 2010 in the information category for its sophisticated installation of audio, light, video, media and control technology as well as for their creative system integration
Apart from the audio, light and media technology used, some 60 Christie projectors are in operation at the Klimahaus and 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 and artificial rooms - was to represent the subject of climate in all its aspects in order to make visitors curious, recognise connections and develop their own initiatives about climatic and environmental protection.
The ASC team led by Michael Staats had a whole series of projectors under test, and clear visions of what the projector should be capable of. Christie provided the solution in combination with their Hamburg-based specialist VisionTools. "These devices absolutely proved their worth and we were absolutely pleased with the co-operation," says Staats.
Roku HD-2000 flash card media players are used in the Klimahaus 8°Ost and each projector has its own dedicated media player. It is only in the case of complex interactive images that recourse was made to separate PCs as media players and with such images it is usually a case of Java-activated Adobe Flash material.
The entire project is controlled by the Medialon Manager Pro V5 server software package. The Medialon Manager causes rain, storm or lightning, in accordance with either a preset time plan or depending upon programmed sequences that can be selected by a combination of buttons on the displays.
(Jim Evans)
