SOUND PAVILION
Gypsum is one of the most commonly used building materials today and prevalent in architectural acoustics. However, despite its ubiquitous appropriation, few domains of research or practice seek to provide opportunistic approaches for its acoustical application. This project demonstrates how sound performance can drive the conceptual agenda for a project by articulating the conditions of spatial experience through the design of architectural surface. In order to demonstrate the architectural expression of acoustics with the pavilion, the design team collaborated with sound designer, Ricky Young, to compose various corresponding tracks played from different channeled speakers embedded in key geometrically altering sound panels. This collaboration activates the pavilion as an architectural instrument, which generates a unique auditory experience based on the guests’ proximity in and around it.
Project Team: Alexander Cabral, Drake Cecil, Hana Maleki, Margaret Martin, Jarrod Norris, Robert Sachs, and Hunter Sigmon