A family-focused theatre was the brief. The client wanted crisp, high-quality picture and sound for movies and sports, a front-of-room space where his young twin daughters could put on performances, and, most distinctively, a room that opens fully to the adjacent bar area so the theatre could function as part of the entertaining space rather than a sealed-off black box.
Resilient construction, damped layered assemblies, and added mass controlled sound transfer in both directions.
Newer-generation Hushframe blocks limited wall thickening to about 1 inch instead of 1.7 inches per wall.
The projector tray was spring-floated independently at roughly 3 Hz, well below the ceiling's resonance.
A selectable speaker configuration reroutes back-channel audio to adjacent speakers automatically when the doors are open.
