Heartshare

Role: Acoustician + Composer

In this project, my group was tasked with developing multisensory rooms, as well as experiences contained within those rooms, for the Heartshare Hospital network. We developed plans for 2 rooms, developing audiovisual content, acoustic models, budgets, and timelines for the client, undergoing multiple rounds of iterative feedback.

Sonic Branding
After exploring the effects of binaural audio on sensory modulation, I developed custom binarual sounds for both “relaxing” and “energizing” scenarios.

I developed a virtual model of the space, and conducted acoustic analysis. These screenshots are from reactive TouchDesigner sketches paired with this audio.

RT60

Acoustics showed too much buildup of low frequencies, very low transmission loss, and an ambient noise level of 65dB (too loud for a hospital!) which we recommended mitigating with cork boards, curtains, and some tuned corner traps.