Control-room

Designed in 1997 by Philip Newell and built by one of Reflexion Arts’s team, PlantaSónica 2 Control-room follows the “Non-Environment” philosophy , with a rigid and massive front wall, made up of high-density materials, placed in the usual way and covered with “local quarries’ stone (Pedra do País), which provides a diffusion effect to the sounds emanating from any point in the room, except from that wall itself. The side walls and the rear wall form a system of broadband absorption traps, made up of panels oriented at carefully determined angles and which, at the same time, work as waveguides and absorbers. Likewise, the ceiling has a space of about a meter and a half, from which very similar waveguides hang, with progressive orientations. The pair of Reflexion Arts 234 Monitors and their respective amplifiers are flush-mounted on the front wall. In the Control-room there are 5 racks filled with authentic wonders of analog and digital technology. The Control-room communicates, through underground channels, with all the other spaces of the studio, through which all the essential wiring passes. Control-room usable space is about 35 m2, but its acoustic behavior is that of a room of much bigger dimensions with great absorption. The only reflective surfaces are the front wall and the floor finishing (fir wood). The Control-room has a supply ventilation system with variable speed, and air conditioning.

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