Sala Vento
A 612-seat hall for a chamber orchestra, shaped as a run of timber ribs that scatter sound before it can echo.
- Seats
- 612
- Volume
- 7,400 m³
- Reverberation
- 1.9 s
- Completed
- 2024
The orchestra had rehearsed for eleven years in a converted cinema where the brass drowned the strings. The brief was one sentence: let the second violins hear the cellos.
We began with the ribs. Each one has a different depth, set by the figure the empty shell made at 250 Hz, so that no two reflections arrive together. The plaster between them is 60 mm thick and carries the bass. The hall opened without electronic correction, and it has needed none.
The figure of this room
Sand on a plate shaken at 578 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.