Control room window height question

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I'm framing up the front control room wall as I type this, and a question arose.
What's a good distance, from the floor, for the bottom of a control room window?

I was figuring on using 32". That would be the bottom of the window. Then the window would be 42" tall, and 60" long. (I'd like to go with a 72" long window, but....)

When I sit in a chair, my eye level is at 46" - 47", so naturally, you'd want the bottom of the window below that.

I was looking a Bruce's pics, and I counted the boards on the slot resonators; if each one is 4" wide, and there's 8 of them, that would be about 32" to the bottom of the window.

Anyone have any ideas on this?
 
Michael,

I set the height of the floor to bottom pane at 24".... a little too low because there's a lot of wasted glass looking into the control room from the booth.

OTOH - in the booth, things look balanced because the window into Studio 2 is 24" off the floor - and with that window I wanted to maintain maximum visibility, so both windows are matched in terms of floor distance and overall height.

Really it was a cosmetic decision in my case.
 
Thanks Bruce.
I just did a mock-up and 32" seemed too high. I couldn't really see the floor... So I changed the height from the floor to the bottom of the window pane to 28". That allows me to see a lot better. I also changed the window width to 66". You only live once right. ;)

72" would be nice too, but I think it tends to get a little too close to the soffits.

Thanks again for the speedy reply.!
 
I think it depends on where the windows are in relationship to what goes in the room.
My window from the control room to the vocal booth is 27" by 60". The height from the floor was determined by the height of the meterbridge shelf for my pc monitor and nearfields. I framed another window while building the wall but covered it with mdf after filling the cavity with fiberglass batting. The other 1/2 of the garage which will be my live room is outside of my budget right now so I covered the window.
Its height was determined by a nice couch I have in the control room. The only thing to consider is overall window size. The larger the glass the thicker is should be because of the tendancy of it to act like a giant diaphragm. Oh..if you have pets make sure they can't lick the glass ;)

SoMm
 
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