Kammer Nord
A broadcast studio for a radio ensemble, quiet enough to record a held breath and dark enough to forget the microphones.
- Floor area
- 310 m²
- Background noise
- 14 dB(A)
- Reverberation
- 1.1 s
- Completed
- 2023
The studio sits forty metres from a ferry terminal. The first task was silence: a room floated on springs inside a concrete box, with ventilation slow enough that you cannot hear it move.
Inside, dark timber slats hide three depths of absorber, so the room stays even from the double bass up to the triangle. The ensemble asked for one more thing, which was to stop seeing the equipment. Every microphone line drops from the ceiling grid, and the floor stays clear.
The figure of this room
Sand on a plate shaken at 493 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.