SOUND DESIGN

Surface Waves

Sound Installation at Fluxia Gallery 

Duet For Monkeys Fuori Biennale 2013 

GIARDINO SONORO Sound Interactive Installation

SOUND_SPACE Milan

Milan, ITA During the Salone del Mobile 2012, Architettura Sonora was pleased to be invited by the Poltrona Frau Group, international leader in the high-end furniture sector, to participate to the Milano Design Village (MDV2012) in the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, an impressive venue of great architectural impact.
Within such an extraordinary space, over 2,500 square meters of exhibition space on various levels, Architettura Sonora was able to create different sound spaces, according to the new collections of the group’s brands (Poltrona Frau, Cassina, Cappellini and Nemo Cassina Lighting), showcasing the A.S. approach to sound space, either through our collection modules or through integrated systems specifically designed by our contract division. For this 12 Customized sound-scapes for individual rooms (Cassina Design), 1 Sound-scape for the News Area (Cappellini Design) and 1 Sound-scape for the Poltrona Frau Museum Area (Poltrona Frau) were created by Marco Madia.

Architecture for Sensitive Lives

Project, Kraków, Poland

Villa Borbone

Viareggio (Lu), Italy

The Villa Borbone monumental complex is one of the most fascinating historical places in the city of Viareggio; the idea for the Villa arose with Maria Luisa di Borbone, Duchess of Lucca starting from 1818 when she commissioned the Government architect Lorenzo Nottolini to develop the project of a palace.

Nowadays the complex has been restored and converted into a multipurpose complex by the City of Viareggio: the elegant architecture of the palace open up to the green surrounding, a luxuriant park of 38,000 square meters, in a charming atmosphere that is perpetuated in the inner rooms.

A pleasant and calm oasis just a short walk from the town of Viareggio, enriched and implemented by a sophisticated Sonic Garden developed by Architettura Sonora with customized sound-scapes by Marco Madia, takes the visitor through an multi-sensorial experience of the historical garden; the sound modules create a system that redesigns an immersive landscape through a clever sound diffusion that, in the materials and forms, pursues the mimesis and integration with the graceful surrounding nature.

Gente flagship store

Design by Studio Baciocchi
Rome, Italy

A.S. has been recently involved in the sound design for the new concept store “Gente Roma” in via del Babuino in Rome, designed by Studio Baciocchi. Taking advantage of its fast prototyping technologies, allowing to both personalize the shape of a sound module and to perfectly fit in the specific architectural and structural requirements, A.S. has created specific customized sound modules, so to satisfy the peculiar characteristic of this place and to create an invisible and highly efficient sound solution. A.S. sound modules were embedded into the furniture, giving life to a completely involving but non-invasive sound effect. The sound-scapes were developed by Marco Madia and ranged from a source material based on movie soundtracks and quotes processed with reverb letting them fade into one another creating an atmosphere with an old cinematic taste, to a sound-scape based on female voices processed to generate an air of female intimacy and for the summer collection sounds of nature were mixed with bright musical tones to give a feeling of light and warmth.

Air4Ear – Music in the air

Design: Elica Design Center
Architectural Sound Modules by Architettura Sonora/Applied Acoustics
Environmental Sound Design by Lorenzo Brusci with Marco Madia & Stefano Bonetti / As Sound Design TeamElica design amplifies sensorial perception through the sound experience of A.S., the brand of the new design division of B&C Speakers, world leader in the production of professional audio components.
This partnership between world leaders in air and sound has produced the multifunctional object Air4Ear, an audio-hood for the kitchen which integrates air filtration, light and sound.
Air4Ear increases the quality of environmental design and introduces a new type of experience: audio immersion, a condition of extremely natural sensorial impression that is able to induce an intense and alert awareness of your own perceptions.
Air4Ear technology creates radial audio diffusion throughout the environment, a natural from of hearing involving sensations similar to the audio perception of a stream or the rain.
The typical “audio identity” of the cooker hood is therefore completely transformed as amazing sonic landscapes – composed especially for the occasion by Lorenzo Brusci of A.S. Sound Design team – replace the traditional sound of airflow.

Green Pattern, an urban garden

Milan, Italy

Designed by VerdeArchitettura
Superstudio 13, Tortona district, Milan

The garden has always been conceived as the representation of nature being an essential element of life. Water, trees, wood and stone represent and synthetize the environment is a simple and immediate way. The project of thisurban garden, carried out byVerdeArchitettura, through the combination of different natural materials intends to recreate a mental landscape that can take place everywhere, recovering that part of our sensibility, sometimes forgotten, for the simple and small everyday things. A.S. sound modules contributed to add to this mental landscape such an essential element like natural sounds and music, furthermore strengthening the concept of the project.

Total White

Milan, Italy

Designed by Meneghello&Paolelli Associati
Superstudio 13, Tortona district, Milan

The project “Total White“, carried out by Sandro Meneghello and Marco Paolelli within the “Living in Wellness” area of the FuoriSalone, describes a multifunctional environment, and hybrid, and in-between zone amid bathroom and living room where space is clearly delimited by different levels into public and private. More zones are combined in one big space where the single sceneries are defines by a change of level. Differences in level, voids and masses replaced walls and partitions. The different soundscapes generated byA.S. directional sonic modulescontributed to create “sound-zones” emphasizing the different realms within the whole space.

One Trip Hotel Lounge

Milan, Italy

Designed by Studio Svetti Tortona District, Milan, Italy

The eclectic warmth of the lounge area, where a sense of wellness and calmness finds color consistency in the green parts characterizing the space, is furthermore enhanced by the addition of an immersive sonic layer conceived by Lorenzo Brusci and Marco Madia. The contemporary dominant urban landscape somehow projects the space into a different dimension, like living in the future or being immersed in the landscape at the same time. The A.S. sound modules play this sensory installation up.