Can Sound Physically Construct a Space?

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Insight:

Museum architecture can be elevated to not only host immersive art installations but be experiential as its own entity.

Questions:

Can sound physically construct a space?

Can it connect users back to their environment?

Can it propel and direct them through a space?

Can it wrap around you in an immersive experience?

Can you exist within the exhibit instead of in front of it?

Idea:

Visualizing musical geometry and the patterns that lay within sound. The art of giving mass and aiding in the translation of that which we can feel and not see.

The auditory impacts and ray tracing of sound implications dictated the reasoning behind the architectural form. Dome ceilings conduct sound in an intentional way through the space, guiding museum users through and into the auditory installations.

Impact:

Sound creating the physical space became the core driver behind the architectural form, structural system, way-finding, program elements and accessibility solutions.

Concrete dome architecture formed from environmental sound instances becoming the driving rule behind the architectural form.

Auditory resonance creates the entire structure and form of the museum.

Auditory ray tracing shows connections between programmatic spaces. Threading together context and users, overlapping sound to allow for way-finding and subconscious layering of meaning. For example those working in the museum offices are continuously connected back to the laughs and sounds of the museum users, answering the why behind the reason for their work.

Spatial Soundscape Abstraction

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