Audiovisual Room Canisius College

Corporate, Education, and Healthcare, Entertainment and Media Production

Acoustic Consultant, Audiovisual Consultant

2017 · Jakarta, ID

At Kolese Kanisius in Jakarta, a single room was designed to serve five different uses: a classroom, an online-class studio, a screening room for students' own audiovisual assignments, a casual movie-watching space, and a venue for acoustic music recitals. Each use carries its own acoustic and playback demands, all inside the same footprint rather than five separate rooms. ALTA Integra's scope was the multi-disciplinary integration of the room's acoustic and multimedia systems, acoustic engineering and audiovisual design worked together rather than as separate add-ons, so that switching the room from one use to the next didn't mean compromising on any of them. A recital, for instance, calls for different reverberation and playback behaviour than a lecture or a movie screening, and the room's systems had to accommodate that range. Fitting five distinct programmes into one room is a common constraint in school facilities where space is limited. The general approach stays the same regardless of the specific room: design the acoustic treatment and AV systems around the most demanding use case in each dimension, speech intelligibility for teaching, playback fidelity for screenings, and natural acoustic response for recitals, rather than picking one use and treating the rest as secondary.