The clients set out to build not just a home theatre, but a room that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest reference cinemas in the world, a vision the wife championed at every turn, drawn especially to the immersive physicality of D-Box. What began as an ambitious brief became something bigger mid-construction, when a single experience in a reference room with infrasonic bass and a Christie Griffyn projector reset their idea of what was possible. From that moment on, nothing short of matching that benchmark would do, and the entire system was reimagined to meet it.
The team worked with the architect and structural engineers in Revit, using heavier steel members instead of taller beam profiles to preserve interior height without compromising the Atmos speaker layer.
The projector was relocated outside the isolated shell into a custom hush box in the lobby, fed by dedicated conditioned air and roughly 60 feet of rigid exhaust ductwork back to the air handler.
Risers were held to roughly 12 inches while second- and third-row seats were custom-built 3 and 6 inches taller than standard to preserve line of sight.
Hardwood poplar frames were built and hand-stretched with fabric, reinforced with metal mesh at speaker and subwoofer zones, and made removable for service without visible seams.
