Conservatório do Cais
A teaching auditorium where a student quartet and a full wind band have to sound right on the same afternoon.
- Seats
- 420
- Adjustable panels
- 36
- Reverberation
- 1.2 to 2.1 s
- Completed
- 2020
A conservatory hall has no single use. In one day it holds a string quartet, a jazz combo, a lecture and a wind band of sixty, and each of them wants a different room.
Thirty-six panels behind the timber lining turn on a vertical axis. One face reflects and the other absorbs. A student can reset the hall in four minutes with a single crank, and a chart by the stage door shows the setting for each kind of ensemble.
The figure of this room
Sand on a plate shaken at 425 Hz comes to rest along the lines where nothing moves. Every room we design has a pattern like this at each bass note. Drag the frequency to see how quickly it changes.
A simulation of an ideal square plate, shown as an illustration. It is not a measurement of the finished room.