Madhura Kharche: Final Assignment

For my tile design, I created a unit that could be multiplied at different scales to fit together and create any desired shapes. The tile is a 1’ x 1’ square with .5” thickness. 

The square shape allows it to be versatile and fit together with any scale of the same unit. The tile itself has a convex top, a portion of which is carved out to form a concave form. 

This combination, coupled with the versatility of the shape of the tile, I thought, would help create surfaces that allow sound rays to bounce off of the surface. My findings from the first part of this assignment using sonic supported that convex and concave shapes greatly influence the way sound waves bounce off of a surface.

The tile would be used as cladding on the interior walls of the theaters.

I let the tiles be thin enough to work as cladding to save material and production costs. The mass of the walls may be built with fire rated gypsum board attached to steel columns, and the tiles will be clad onto the boards.

Unit 

The multi surface sonic study shows how sound can be contained within the room  and bounced towards the insides and the back of the room using concave shaped walls.