New Studio - need help please!

Here is a layout for my studio project. studio.gif is how the building is now. studiolayout.pdf is 1 idea studiolayout1.pdf is 2nd idea You can tell from studiolayout1.pdf where the air units are. they would be difficult to move. As far as control room. building is contrete slab. should control room float above or on top of slab? drum room too? Any help, suggestions appreciated! thanks Earl Here are some questions that have already been answered earlier. Concrete slab on earth, or suspended above a lower floor? Concrete Slab on Earth So, when you say "empty", does this mean that those gawd-awful parallel walls aren't built yet? Oh no- They are built. I have been trying how to decide how to get rid of all the parallel walls. the interior walls are coming down How loud are your neighbors, and how loud are YOU? Well I can get pretty loud. Neighbors aren't too big a deal as far as leakage. We are not in a neighborhood. It's actually downtown. I was in a rock band. Loud Drums, Marshall Stacks etc... I have to be prepared for that but I would also like to be as versatile as possible even down to voice-over for video. What's your approximate budget level, and are you a "hammer dulcimer" band or a "Pissed off Spinal Tap" kind of band? Budget hmmm. I don't want to break the bank but I would like to get the construction right the first time. Are the cinderblock walls filled, or hollow? What kind of covering is on the inside and outside? not filled Ceiling joists - how far apart, what size, what's hanging on them, are they trusses or just straight joists? trusses with sheetrock ceiling - 10' Air handler - is is isolated with rubber, loud, quiet, metal ducts or other? 2 air handlers. both supply entire building. being a datacenter you had to have backup. I have looked at using one for control room. Not isolated, metal ducts and loud :( The double doors - already there or future, well-sealed or crap, anything else that may be pertinent... Double doors are already there. Heavy metal doors but not well sealed.

Looking at your pdf's, I would make the back side of the control room widen out, instead of getting narrower. I like drawing #2, but you might have too many doors from the CR. Food for thought. :D