Atelier Deux Pianos
A rehearsal room for a piano duo, tuned so that two instruments facing each other stay two instruments.
- Floor area
- 96 m²
- Ceiling height
- 5.2 m
- Reverberation
- 0.8 s
- Completed
- 2022
Two concert grands in one room produce a wall of sound in which neither player can find their own hands. The duo had tried carpets, curtains and distance. None of it separated the instruments.
We curved the ceiling so that each piano hears itself first and its partner a moment later. The delay is about twelve milliseconds, too short to notice and long enough for the ear to sort one piano from the other. The walls stayed bare concrete, because the room needed that brightness.
The figure of this room
Sand on a plate shaken at 289 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.