Elevations

[Michael Jones]

I may actually beat my self-imposed December 1st deadline, and actually submitt for permits the Wednesday before Thanksgiving!

Not that City staff will look at it before the following Monday, December 2nd actually, but at least I'll have it in before the holiday.

So, given that, I thought I'd post some drawings of the exterior elevations. I've always said that the studio MUST be faithful to the existing residence in architectural character, and I want the exterior to have this "Carriage House" feel to it.

The "front elevation" shows 3 doors, but only the midle one is functional, the other 2 are just architectural elements.

The "right elevation" shows 2 doors and again only the far right door is functional. It leads into the control room.

 

[Michael Jones]

...and the "front" elevation.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Hi Michael, looks great! Are you doing the masonry yourself too! Brick should work really good for iso. I've never heard of "carriage house". Is that in reference to old "carraiges"? Anyway, good luck on the submittals. Everytime I've had to deal with BID, it was a lesson in how stupid I really am.
fitz

 

[Michael Jones]

Rick - thanks for looking.
I'm going to sub out the masonary, that's an art form in and of itself. If you can't fix it with a hammer, I stay away from it!
Fortunately, really good masons are in abundance here.

Carriage houses, typified by large double doors (usually on both sides) and tall ceilings were used to house old horse drawn carriages. The double doors would open on both sides, and the driver would pull the horses and carriage through, then un-hitch the team, and leave the carriage.
They had big doors on both sides to drive thru because horse drawn carriages didn't have a reverse and carriages and coaches were heavy!

At any rate, it's just an architectural element. Some were lavishly accentuented in the Victorian style, while others were simplistic, almost utilitarian in design and function.

As far as BID, the only thing that has me concerned is the ingress and engress of the building as it pertains to fire code. I'll let them comment on my lay-out. If it doesn't meet code, I'll end up with another door or window.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Hi Michael, thanks. If your property is zoned Residential, you probably won't have any problem. But I'm no expert. Hey Michael, what type of diffuser are you building? I'm designing mine right now, but thats another story. I'm curious about what defines the parameters of diffusers in regards to room size and geometry. Do the room dimensions, as far as supported wavelengths, have anything to do with overall diffuser wells? Or what do you base your layout on? I am familiar with rpg periodic design(ie quadratic and primary root, but the actual reasons for assigning the finished dimensions to well width and depths, as well as period widths are unclear to me. I understand certain principles, But that is another thread probably. Anyway, good luck on the ingress issue Your plan and drawings look great!
fitz

 

[Michael Jones]

Rick - I'm not sure I can help much with diffusion design. But this from the SAE website may give you a starting point:
The depth of a diffuser determines the lowest frequency that will be affected. A diffuser one foot deep will scatter sound down to 160 Hz.

If you read the portion about diffusion on John's web-site, you'll notice that he subscribes to a different school of thought regarding diffusion in the control room.

I think a lot of the design of diffusion is done on a "trial and error" basis. The room has to be complete, or nearly complete to accurately "tune" it. Using the reverb calculator at the SAE web-site will give you an idea of the problem frequencies, and where to begin.

My "preliminary" design was done using the helmholtz calculator and making the slats really narrow and really deep, (kind of the opposite of what it is intended for), but it seems to give a good starting point. I've also looked at other studios with a similar sized control room to mine, and tried to approximate what was done in those.