HOW WE WORK
HOW WE WORK
Our work methodology is based in five main pillars:
• Dialog with the Client
• Define the Objectives required
• Design of volumes, shapes, surfaces, geometry and materials to meet Criteria and treatments to control the noise-vibration of Machinery
• Forecast the acoustic perform using room Model (commercial and own tools) and calculate all the parameters, sound insulation values and sound mapping
• On-site support to ensure the correct execution and final measurements to asses the project meets the goals.
• Dialog with the Client
• Define the Objectives required
• Design of volumes, shapes, surfaces, geometry and materials to meet Criteria and treatments to control the noise-vibration of Machinery
• Forecast the acoustic perform using room Model (commercial and own tools) and calculate all the parameters, sound insulation values and sound mapping
• On-site support to ensure the correct execution and final measurements to asses the project meets the goals.
DIALOGUE
We believe that a constant dialogue with the client, initiated even before starting a project, is crucial to understanding the aims, needs and desires that have motivated its realization.
It is an important process that allows us to anticipate and take the best solutions to develop your ideas. The wide variety of projects in which we have participated allows us to approach in a very diverse and effective ways to a new case, optimizing time and efforts.
It is an important process that allows us to anticipate and take the best solutions to develop your ideas. The wide variety of projects in which we have participated allows us to approach in a very diverse and effective ways to a new case, optimizing time and efforts.
OBJECTIVES
Grosso modo, the acoustics required by a space can be distinguished into two typologies: that which must not interfere with the message and that which must take an active part in the communication process. In both cases, it is necessary to carry out the appropriate treatments, to define the shapes, sizes and materials of the interior of the room. In cases where acoustics are an active factor, the secret is to find the right balance between this role and maintaining maximum fidelity, find the room response that is subjectively most appreciated by the user.
In this process the key point is to understand and determine the uses to which the room will be designed, and to define the goals of the Acoustic Criterion.
In this process the key point is to understand and determine the uses to which the room will be designed, and to define the goals of the Acoustic Criterion.
DESIGN
In the design stage, it is time to unify and share the needs and desires of the client with the acoustic requirements required by the space. The key in this process is to size properly the room, to get a perfect relationship between volume and audience. The internal shape will depend very much on the type of room in which you work and the general arrangement between audience and stage.
Our designs always try to maximize the acoustics themselves, making the room an instrument in itself. That is why we study in great detail each surface, slopes or type of material of the internal surfaces, always with the aim of allowing a free acoustic expression of the space in opposition to the use of control mechanisms. In this sense, we always try not to use more absorption than the audience itself and let that the form generates the correct balance of reflections, the correct temporal distribution of energy.
Obviously, when rooms are born with the desire to be multifunctional and therefore the acoustic objectives must be different for each use, within the design process the appropriate adaptation mechanisms are defined to obtain this necessary variable acoustics.
As importance as the internal design, it is the definition of the enclosures of the building, enclosures that must guarantee the acoustic independence between the different spaces and with the exterior.
Our designs always try to maximize the acoustics themselves, making the room an instrument in itself. That is why we study in great detail each surface, slopes or type of material of the internal surfaces, always with the aim of allowing a free acoustic expression of the space in opposition to the use of control mechanisms. In this sense, we always try not to use more absorption than the audience itself and let that the form generates the correct balance of reflections, the correct temporal distribution of energy.
Obviously, when rooms are born with the desire to be multifunctional and therefore the acoustic objectives must be different for each use, within the design process the appropriate adaptation mechanisms are defined to obtain this necessary variable acoustics.
As importance as the internal design, it is the definition of the enclosures of the building, enclosures that must guarantee the acoustic independence between the different spaces and with the exterior.
MODEL
Modeling allows us to have the first approximation of the behavior of the room. It is also the stage where we can observe which points and how the design can be improved to obtain the most optimal acoustic response. The modeling analyzes all the different possible scenarios and room configurations.
During this stage, the most advanced sound prediction techniques on the market are used, as well as our own tools and software, developed internally in the company’s own research and development program. These own methods have the advantage that they can be improved in each experience, adjusting their performance to that has been observed in real rooms.
The different acoustic parameters are calculated from the approach of several theoretical frameworks that allow to obtain a maximum information of the final behavior of the room.
Among other aspects, the spaces are analyzed with:
• Study of the ray tracing
• Calculation of acoustic parameters RT, Lat, Def, Heat, …
• Time distribution of energy.
During this stage, the most advanced sound prediction techniques on the market are used, as well as our own tools and software, developed internally in the company’s own research and development program. These own methods have the advantage that they can be improved in each experience, adjusting their performance to that has been observed in real rooms.
The different acoustic parameters are calculated from the approach of several theoretical frameworks that allow to obtain a maximum information of the final behavior of the room.
Among other aspects, the spaces are analyzed with:
• Study of the ray tracing
• Calculation of acoustic parameters RT, Lat, Def, Heat, …
• Time distribution of energy.
ON SITE
A supervision of the building construction is crucial to guarantee that the project design is well implemented. Mistakes during this stage can ruin all the work and efforts. In all projects will be modifications and problems with execution. All of them have to be revised and checked by the acoustics.
Moreover, it is important to do final measures to assess that the result has achieved the initial goals of the project and the resulting acoustics achieve the higher standards.
Moreover, it is important to do final measures to assess that the result has achieved the initial goals of the project and the resulting acoustics achieve the higher standards.
