office · offices and meeting rooms
esaturnus
M and L panels – reverberation control in offices and meeting rooms.
Applications
Office acoustics
In short. In an office, meetings, phone calls and concentration have to coexist. Without enough absorption, sound carries far and a meeting room sounds hollow, including for those joining by video.
Open-plan space
Open-plan offices often combine different functions – a busy zone for meetings and phone calls and a quiet zone for focused work – without any acoustic separation between them. Without enough sound absorption, conversations and phone calls from the busy zone carry over into the focus zone. This leads to less privacy, reduced concentration, more fatigue and lower productivity.
Meeting room
Meeting rooms are typically smaller, enclosed spaces where people talk and meet with focus, often via video conferencing as well. Insufficient sound absorption leads to a higher reverberation time and strong sound reflections more quickly there than in larger spaces. This reduces speech intelligibility and causes listening fatigue for those present. External participants in a video conference are affected too: microphones pick up the reverberation, resulting in a hollow or diffuse voice.
What works
- Ceiling panels above workstations.
- Wall compositions in meeting rooms, optionally in corporate colours or with a logo.
- Spacers and desk panels to define zones.
Impressions
References
office · meeting room
Delacroix & Associes (Brussels)
L and M wall composition – wall composition in a meeting room.
office · shared office space
Yellow Bird by Impul(e) Architecten (Brussels)
artistic combination of L and M – aesthetic panel composition in a shared office space.
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