Noopur Suckhlecha | Assignment 6 B

As soon as I heard about this assignment I started thinking of a way to integrate it into the main concept of the cinema design. A "media wall" or in other words an LED screen runs through my project proposal and acts as a threshold for the program and circulation. So, I decided to integrate these tiles with my media wall. Through one crit with Professor Golli, we knew that the front part of the LED wall would be lit up and provide access to light and sound but the back side of the wall was pretty dull. Since I  had the corridor for the backside of the wall, I decided to put my tile on the back of the media wall. Thus, a few of these tiles would be combined to form panels that would then either absorb of reflect the sound.

The whole concept of putting the tiles in the corridor gave way to a modulation of sound while the people who came to see the movie walk down the corridor. To integrate the tiles into the media wall, I created slits in the wall which would lead the sound from one side of the wall to the other side that would then have to pass along these panels to reach to the people walking in the corridor. 

I alternated the absorbing tile (possible made out of RF Absorber (http://www.ecnmag.com/sites/ecnmag.com/files/legacyfiles/ECN/Absorbers_White_Paper.pdf)) with the reflecting tile (possible made out of reflective sheet metal) to create the modulation of sound as well as give the viewers of the cinema something other than visuals to be intrigued and interested in.

A render of how the panes look behind the media wall which has slits that get light as well as sound into the back side of the theater.

The sound absorbing tile looks like this, and is made of a lot of grooves so that sound actually gets completely absorbed and a dull faint of sound is heard while walking past this tile.

In addition to the tile, the break of the tile is to show the panels it is made up of. Since the panel is 12.5 feet tall it is made of a 2.5' x 2' tile.

The sound reflective tile is also made up of a 12.5' tall panel and has multiple tiles of size 2.5' x 2'. The sound reflective tile looks like this, 

And this is how Sonic looks if I perform the absorption and reflection on the surface of the tiles.

The render clearly shows that a lot of arrows of sound are reflected from the reflective surface while a bunch of arrows are grouped together and would be absorbed with the absorption surface.