Another ceiling question
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 8:52 am
Regarding the ceiling in my studio, I had thought of doing a coffered or stepped ceiling. Actually, it would be a reverse coffered ceiling. (Box like squares comming down, rather than going up into the ceiling.
I asked around at a few other BBS's, and no one seemed to want to recommend it. What I did get though was a recommendation from another studio designer (who shall remain nameless) to do an unusual ceiling design.
His idea was to have a ridgebeam run from front to back. it would be about 12' high at the front, and 8' high at the rear. Then, run rafters from the side walls to the ridge beam.
(Still with me?)
The oddity here is that the rear rafters would pitch down, ,then, as you move forward, at some point the rafters would be "level", and moving forward more, the rafters would take on a more "normal" pitch.
This would certianly eliminate any parallel-ism from floor to ceiling, but the control room ceiling would start high at the front, and slope down towards the back. That in itself seems to defy adhered to practices in control room design.
Could it be that the "inverted" pitch at the rear, and normal pitch at the front, provide such beneficial diffusion that those practices normally adhered to in CR design are irrelevant?
I have attached a model of the CR. I didn't model in all the rafters yet, but you can see the ridge beam, and get an idea of what I speak of.
I asked around at a few other BBS's, and no one seemed to want to recommend it. What I did get though was a recommendation from another studio designer (who shall remain nameless) to do an unusual ceiling design.
His idea was to have a ridgebeam run from front to back. it would be about 12' high at the front, and 8' high at the rear. Then, run rafters from the side walls to the ridge beam.
(Still with me?)
The oddity here is that the rear rafters would pitch down, ,then, as you move forward, at some point the rafters would be "level", and moving forward more, the rafters would take on a more "normal" pitch.
This would certianly eliminate any parallel-ism from floor to ceiling, but the control room ceiling would start high at the front, and slope down towards the back. That in itself seems to defy adhered to practices in control room design.
Could it be that the "inverted" pitch at the rear, and normal pitch at the front, provide such beneficial diffusion that those practices normally adhered to in CR design are irrelevant?
I have attached a model of the CR. I didn't model in all the rafters yet, but you can see the ridge beam, and get an idea of what I speak of.
) but I'd have to think long and hard before building a ceiling like that for a CR - it seems to me that you would totally destroy any RFZ you might have had by reversing the ceiling slope, even with the variable pitch rafters. 
