An auditorium or a screening room is expressly designed to have perfect acoustics. However, most large public spaces lack these considerations: think of arenas, swimming pools, shopping centers, exhibition pavilions, or large halls.
In these spaces, acoustics are often a real nightmare: hundreds of people moving and speaking loudly, overlapping each other. Reverberation makes the environment unpleasant and every conversation difficult.
Nowadays, there are highly efficient solutions to improve acoustic comfort in these spaces. Textile products with sound-absorbing properties, customizable, easy to install, and that encapsulate many advantages in a single intervention.
Intervening in a large space is not simple: it requires the right skills and appropriate proposals. The use of simple sound-absorbing panels often is not the correct solution in these cases: it is better to rely on the properties of technical fabrics.
The Tensilence range is ideal for solving these situations: fabrics with excellent acoustic properties combined with tensioning profiles that allow solving any type of structure, even of considerable size.
This allows intervention in contexts where paneling would be difficult or very expensive.
With the additional advantage that an acoustic curtain and an acoustic sail can become at the same time elements of sophisticated design and ensure protection from sunlight.
In this application, the reverberation time has been more than halved, by a factor of 2.5, with a 100mm air gap. In a 600 sqm room, the reverberation time decreased from 4.20 to 1.68, and in a 320 sqm room, it went from 4.15 to 1.53.
During the renovation of this 16th-century building, the large glass roof is raised to create a multipurpose space for events and exhibitions. The floor and the large glass skylight unquestionably enhance the beauty of the place, while the thermal and acoustic comfort was such that it compromised its use.
In this application, the reverberation time was reduced by a factor of 2.8, decreasing from 6.90 to 2.50.