Kurt Schuessler | Projects

SELECTED PROJECTS

ARTS AND CRAFTS PAVILLION, The Royal National Eistedffod of Wales, UK, 1990

RESPONSIBILITY: Architecture
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS: n.c.
DESCRIPTION: Competion entry for a temporary exhibition building on one of Europe's largest and oldest cultural festivals. It is designed as a modular structure, easy to assemble, dismantle and transport, for ten consecutive re-erections. The spacial concept is composed of three separate areas, a large exhibition area, a covered outdoor area and a screening hall. The basic design principle of the exhibition area consists of a raised lenticular edge beam,

braced by a tie rod and stiffend through an air pressured pneumatic PVC membrane roof. From the carrier beam large pivoting wall elements are suspended. Thus everywhere the walls can be opened or closed as necessary. A similar design and identical wall elements are used for the hall. The outdoor area is coverd by a PVC sail to create shade and protection from rain for the visitors.

HI-FI SHOP, Kassel, Germany, 1987

RESPONSIBILITY: Architecture
TOTAL PROJECT COSTS: n.c.
DESCRIPTION: Concept design for a flagship shop of an Irish manufacturer of high quality hi-fi equipment. He intended to increase its brand awareness by setting up a chain of Design Brand Shops on key locations of the German market. A basic element was that the shop window and the audition studio

form a physical and visual unit. The individual hi-fi components are presented like precious exhibits in a gallery. To simulate varying spacial situations the audition studios are both by the architectural design language as well as by the choice of materials alternated in "hard" and "soft" environments.