Blackroom began with the people before the room, surveying the family's tastes and then offering several design concepts before one became the cinema.
With the villa still under construction and the room off limits, the team found its own way into a neighbouring finished villa to measure a similar space, so the design could begin long before the real room existed. The result recreates the showroom experience the client had fallen for: a JVC DLA-NZ900 projector tucked into a hush box in the rear wall, a 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos system supported by eight subwoofers working together through Trinnov WaveForming, and every speaker hidden behind acoustically transparent panels. Equipment lives in a separate room to keep the cinema silent, and a single RTI-powered iPad, resting on a charging wall station by the entrance, runs the whole experience.
The team gained access to a comparable room in a neighboring, already-completed villa and took measurements there to begin the design process before the client's own property was handed over by the developer.
Extra space was deliberately left in the ceiling to accommodate renovation of the ventilation system to the room's specific needs once that information became available.
Eight direct-feedback subwoofers beyond the standard 9.1.6 layout were deployed specifically to enable Trinnov's WaveForming technology.
All speakers were hidden behind acoustically transparent panels designed to be easily removable for maintenance and cleaning.
