Kurt Schuessler | Projects

SELECTED PROJECTS

11 EXPOSITIONS OF THE THEMATIC AREA EXPO2000, Hanover, Germany, 1997–2000

RESPONSIBILITY: Senior Project Leader Art Direction
PROJECT SIZE: 100.000 m²
TOTAL PROJECT COST: 260 m Euro
DESCRIPTION: The discovery of a new world. The Thematic Area was perhaps the most ambitious project of the EXPO2000 in Hanover. For the first time there were not only some topic pavilions, but a large, contentwise connected thematic area with eleven single topics. They had the task to ask questions about the future and give possible answers by addressing the most up-to-date issues of the new millenium.

The Thematic Area informed on 100.000 m² about the real adventures of the future – and the adventurous realness of the present. The exhibitions were developed in close co-operation between exhibition designer like François Confino and Uwe Brueckner, Architects like Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito, artists like Antoni Miralda, Rajeev Sethi and François Schuiten, institutions like ESA and MIT, partners from economy and industry and many more.

OLYMPIC VELODROM AND SWIMMING POOL, Berlin, Germany, 1993–1997, Arch. Dominique Perrault

RESPONSIBILITY: Senior Project Leader for Swimming Pool, Urban Planning and Train Station
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS: 296 m Euro
DESCRIPTION: In 1992, Berlin was hoping to be selected as the host city of the 2000 Olympic Games, held in Sydney. The Velodrome (11420 spectators, 5583 seats) and the Swimming Pool (4200 spectators, 2136 seats) were indeed realised, although in watered down versions, modified to serve as multifunctional facilities. Two enormous steel lakes in a park of apple trees,

that is how the two sport arenas present themselves at first sight. They can hardly be seen despite their enormous size as they are sunk in the ground and their roofs tower only slightly above the level of the public park. The exterior shape, abstract and geometrical, is purely a result of the internal use. A rectangle for the swimming pool and a circle for the velodrome.