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Imagine being able to hear what your project will sound like, and understand how design choices will shape future experiences. A place where you explore and understand every aspect of sound and noise, and then use it to shape desired outcomes. This is why we created the SoundLab.
What is SoundLab?
SoundLab is a collaborative environment where project constituents and stakeholders come together answers to fundamental questions like ‘how will the orchestra sound in different seats in this venue?’, ‘how much noise from this new railway will we hear at our residence?’, ‘will these patient rooms be quiet enough to allow an optimum recovery experience?’, ‘how much traffic noise will I hear in this new building’. The process brings common shared understanding, and confidence that the design outcomes will be as expected.
We have used SoundLab to inform the design of some of the world’s best arts and culture venues, and to allow people to experience the impact of major infrastructure projects during the design process, shaping better design outcomes. SoundLab is also used alongside a range of immersive reality tools, including immersive projections, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality visualisation to allow multi-sensory design development in projects.
Why use SoundLab?
SoundLab is an extremely powerful collaborative environment, that enables project stakeholders, and communities to explore how acoustics can shape the built environment. By providing objective, quantifiable information in an accessible format, through listening, SoundLab makes the intangible tangible, demystifying and bringing clarity to design decisions.
SoundLab makes deeper use of data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to extend the ways it can be used, drawing valuable insights from many thousands of completed projects. SoundLab can also be used with AR and VR, and because it is spatially precise, as you move around, particularly if wearing headsets, the sound is always true to what you see, (not the case in many VR experiences). SoundLab® is a core tool in all the acoustics design work we undertake.
Design you can experience
The first iteration of SoundLab was deployed in 1998, and continues to be refined and upgraded. We have incorporated enhanced visualization and haptic capabilities in our ExperienceLab environments, and developed mobile versions to take to clients and stakeholders. Each lab offers a rich and revelatory experience, helping clients to experience, explore and understand their project, well before physical completion, and to build public understanding and support often vital to successful public projects.
How we help you
SoundLab adds value to any project, from its earliest stages, through concept development, all the way to design, construction and operation. Its analysis, modelling and design insights are relevant to user experiences in almost every sector:
Get in touch
Access our SoundLab services through regional experts around the world. Contact us to experience how we can help you with your project.
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