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.

Danielle Lehmann: Assignment 6B

My tile consists of a singular module with several different pieces of wood attached to it at certain points. The wood pieces are different thicknesses and lengths, but each module is interlocking with each other.

A few weeks ago I did a "Looking Out" post on a woman who took discarded wood, shaped it and made acoustic panels with it. The wood was beautiful, recycled and a conversational piece. The tiles run the length of the long sides of my theaters to create two walls (per theater) of wonderful wooden, acoustic, systems. Although the post was inspiring, I decided on this system because of my overall design had two interlocking rectangles. My project was focused on person to person interactions and how to facilitate those interactions. I hope that having an interesting and varied wall this this would create a topic for strangers to talk about. In addition the wood acts as an excellent acoustic diffuser and absorber of sound. In addition, the wood pieces are different depths which would reflect and absorb the sound differently depending on how much it would protrude into the theater.

Interlocking modules create a seamless wall

Mounting the panels to the walls

Refraction and reflection of sound off the wood

Leaving CMU before the 3D printing would finish, I decided to make my own physical model