Acoustic Spaces

The following project is an all-purpose lecture hall for The Southern California Institute of Architecture by Hodgetts + Fung. The architects used a low cost, unique solution in the form of industrial wool felt in order to achieve an acoustic rating of .4 coefficient in the space. The wool felt is meant to deflect and refract the sound for acoustic clarity as the space is used for various lectures etc. in which the school needs sound to travel far back into the space. Named XSS-Experimental Sound SurfaceCeiling by its inventors, the space resembles upside-down topography, the swells of which help to diffuse the sound in the space.