ZDF NEWS STUDIO
NEWS STUDIO – MAINZ, GERMANY 2007 (on air since 2009)
Hosoya Schaefer Architects has been part of an interdisciplinary team working on the new heute news studio at ZDF. The brief was to create a studio that allows new ways of moderating newscasts on TV, but has implications also for online and other new media. The studio was planned partly in real space, partly in virtual space and had to be a cutting edge fusion of the capabilities of both. The studio was built with the newest technologies, robot controlled cameras and vizRT based virtual technology.
Hosoya Schaefer Architects was responsible for conceptualizing the relationship between real and virtual space and to create concepts, proposals and first layouts for information graphics in collaboration with experts for on-air, online and industrial design as well as typography. To this end the total studio environment including the cameras was built in a game engine serving as a tool for rapidly prototyping concepts. It was also planned to link this construct to database based content.