Studio design, need help [edited]
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:20 am
Hello,
First of all I'd like to say how great and helpful this forum has been so far. Amazing reads. I understood my previous two acousticians were not heading in the right way.
My budget for the acoustic treatment is around 15000€ without counting the electricity and HVAC system
The studio space is located in an unfinished house which is out of town in Belgrade, Serbia, in a very calm area with little to no cars passing by, but strong winds and rain do tend to occur.
Here are some pictures of the site, floor plans, 3D models and a short video:
Ground floor plan:
The CR (26.4m2 and 3.5m high) is situated in the centre and the LR (63m2 and 5m high) is right in front of it.
Second floor plan:
Here's a quick video: http://www.mediafire.com/watch/006wu7dv ... G_5019.m4v
The control room, live room and the rest of the house are all on separate foundations. The gap between the foundations is 5cm.
The inner walls of the control room are 25cm thick concrete blocks filled with sand, then there's a 5cm air gap with Knauf KR P, then a 20cm thick regular clay block. All the walls have armed concrete poles.
The front of the control room is open towards the live room right now, the space is 220cm high and 4m wide. The front wall of the CR you see in the house plans was a bad idea to have the glass shaped like that.
The Live Room walls are also 25cm thick concrete blocks filled with sand and concrete poles. The rest of the house is made out of regular construction clay blocks and concrete poles.
What I'm really pissed about is that if I create a second leaf in my Live Room for insulation I will end up with a 3 leaf system between the LR and CR, and between the LR and Living Room located in the second floor right above the CR. What to do there? Are the concrete walls in the LR enough for insulation?
The floors on the ground floor are made out of 20cm reinforced concrete foundations laying directly on the ground so by doing some research I guess there is no need to float any floors since earth is acting as the damper for it. But I do need to add more concrete slab to level the floors since the current slab is not levelled properly at all. It would be impossible to put wooden or laminate floors as it is now. Since this has been proven not to cause any vibrations at two of my friend's studios I was thinking about putting 3cm of hard industrial floor styrodur as thermal insulation on top of my foundation slab and then pouring 15cm of reinforced concrete to level the floors properly. What do you advise?
The slab separating the upper and lower floors is 15cm of armed concrete and sadly it's resting on the inner leaf floors of the control room. I want to isolate the upper floor from the CR as much as possible since my family will be living there. I'm guessing properly floating the floors on the top floor would be an option as to create a two leaf system or is there a better or cheaper way?
The ceiling of the Live Room is 25cm of reinforced concrete, but there won't be any people living on top of it.
A HVAC has been taken into account. The company that is doing the ventilation project proposed to place the machinery in the attic which is two floors above the Control Room, then enter the control room and live room from their respective concrete ceilings. But wouldn't it be better if the machinery was on top of the LR but decoupled and insulated properly? This way my apartment at the second floor would have more space for other things.
More info in my second post.
First of all I'd like to say how great and helpful this forum has been so far. Amazing reads. I understood my previous two acousticians were not heading in the right way.
My budget for the acoustic treatment is around 15000€ without counting the electricity and HVAC system
The studio space is located in an unfinished house which is out of town in Belgrade, Serbia, in a very calm area with little to no cars passing by, but strong winds and rain do tend to occur.
Here are some pictures of the site, floor plans, 3D models and a short video:
Ground floor plan:
The CR (26.4m2 and 3.5m high) is situated in the centre and the LR (63m2 and 5m high) is right in front of it.
Second floor plan:
Here's a quick video: http://www.mediafire.com/watch/006wu7dv ... G_5019.m4v
The control room, live room and the rest of the house are all on separate foundations. The gap between the foundations is 5cm.
The inner walls of the control room are 25cm thick concrete blocks filled with sand, then there's a 5cm air gap with Knauf KR P, then a 20cm thick regular clay block. All the walls have armed concrete poles.
The front of the control room is open towards the live room right now, the space is 220cm high and 4m wide. The front wall of the CR you see in the house plans was a bad idea to have the glass shaped like that.
The Live Room walls are also 25cm thick concrete blocks filled with sand and concrete poles. The rest of the house is made out of regular construction clay blocks and concrete poles.
What I'm really pissed about is that if I create a second leaf in my Live Room for insulation I will end up with a 3 leaf system between the LR and CR, and between the LR and Living Room located in the second floor right above the CR. What to do there? Are the concrete walls in the LR enough for insulation?
The floors on the ground floor are made out of 20cm reinforced concrete foundations laying directly on the ground so by doing some research I guess there is no need to float any floors since earth is acting as the damper for it. But I do need to add more concrete slab to level the floors since the current slab is not levelled properly at all. It would be impossible to put wooden or laminate floors as it is now. Since this has been proven not to cause any vibrations at two of my friend's studios I was thinking about putting 3cm of hard industrial floor styrodur as thermal insulation on top of my foundation slab and then pouring 15cm of reinforced concrete to level the floors properly. What do you advise?
The slab separating the upper and lower floors is 15cm of armed concrete and sadly it's resting on the inner leaf floors of the control room. I want to isolate the upper floor from the CR as much as possible since my family will be living there. I'm guessing properly floating the floors on the top floor would be an option as to create a two leaf system or is there a better or cheaper way?
The ceiling of the Live Room is 25cm of reinforced concrete, but there won't be any people living on top of it.
A HVAC has been taken into account. The company that is doing the ventilation project proposed to place the machinery in the attic which is two floors above the Control Room, then enter the control room and live room from their respective concrete ceilings. But wouldn't it be better if the machinery was on top of the LR but decoupled and insulated properly? This way my apartment at the second floor would have more space for other things.
More info in my second post.