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Model
We start from your drawings or BIM model, at whatever stage they’re at. For an existing room, we start with a site visit and a tape measure.
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ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS
TERRITORY: EUROPE
EST. 2026
VISIBLE SOUND
Acoustics for new buildings and the rooms you already have.
We let you hear a space before it’s built, and we measure it again once it is.
01PREMISE
Sound is architecture’s invisible material. We make it audible visible.
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Start early
The best acoustic decisions are made at the sketch stage, when moving a wall costs nothing. We like to be there from the first drawings.
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Hear it first
Clients and architects put on headphones and listen to the room as it’s drawn. Choosing between two options gets much easier once you’ve heard both.
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Then measure it
Every prediction gets checked on site once the room is finished. If it doesn’t match the model, we want to know, and so should you.
02SERVICESTRACKLIST
SIDE A / NEW BUILDINGS
- A1 Room Acoustics Halls, theatres, studios, classrooms, offices. We work alongside the architect on shape, volume and surfaces so each room sounds the way its use demands. ISO 3382
- A2 Speech Intelligibility Our specialty. Lecture halls, courtrooms, stations, terminals, places of worship, open offices. We model how clearly a voice carries and tune the room and its sound system until every seat can follow. STI · IEC 60268-16
- A3 Sound Insulation Keeping sound where it belongs: between neighbours, between a rehearsal room and the street, between one classroom and the next. EN ISO 12354 · ISO 717
- A4 Listening Sessions We play back the modelled room so the whole team can hear it. Option A, then option B. It’s the quickest way we know to settle an argument about a ceiling. BINAURAL · AMBISONIC
SIDE B / EXISTING ROOMS
- B1 Acoustic Survey We measure the room as it is today: how long sound lingers, how much noise gets in, how well people can understand each other. You get a clear account of what’s wrong and why. ISO 3382 · ISO 16283
- B2 Retrofit Design Focused changes to a room that already exists, usually fewer than people expect. Knowing which surfaces matter means the budget goes to the right places. REVERB · CLARITY · STI
- B3 Adaptive Reuse Churches becoming venues, warehouses becoming workplaces, listed buildings you can’t alter in the obvious ways. We find quiet solutions that respect the original fabric. HERITAGE · CHANGE OF USE
- B4 Commissioning When the work is done we measure again. You get the before and after in numbers, and you can hear the difference for yourself. ISO 3382 · IEC 60268-16
03METHODSIGNAL CHAIN
02PROCESS
Simulate
We test the room in established acoustic software and compare design options while they’re still cheap to change.
03MONITOR
Auralize
The model becomes something you can listen to. A voice at the lectern, a cello on stage, a busy café at lunchtime.
04OUT
Verify
We measure the finished room and set it beside the prediction. The solid line is the model and the dashed line is the room.
04ROSTER4 ARTISTS
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SIGNAL
Tyler Krome
ACOUSTIC ENGINEER
- Prev. Bose
- Prev. Meta, Audio Research
Came to rooms by way of automotive and consumer audio systems. Now focused on optimizing halls, classrooms and offices, and leads our measurement work.
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FIELD
Michael McManus
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
- PhD, Physics
- Prev. Meta, Audio Research
A physicist drawn to the way sound moves through space. Leads our modelling and speech intelligibility work and runs the listening sessions.
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FORM
Chelsie Krome
PROJECT LEAD
- PMP
- Structural Engineering/Construction
- BFA, Sculpture
- Prev. Boeing
Keeps every project on time and on budget. Trained as a sculptor too, and still sees a room as an object you walk through.
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SPACE
Lindsey Matetich
LICENSED ARCHITECT
- Registered Architect
- Prev. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe
Has led building projects all over Europe. Speaks the language of design teams, planners and permit offices, and makes sure our advice can actually be built.
05PROJECTSEUROPE
From Lisbon
to Stockholm.
We work with architects, developers, schools, universities and cultural institutions across Europe. We travel for surveys, measurements and listening sessions, and do the rest from the studio. A few recent projects are below.
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A 420-seat concrete lecture theatre where the back rows couldn’t follow. Targeted absorption and zoned loudspeakers, installed over one summer.
STI 0.48 → 0.67 (REAR ROWS)
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A listed chapel becoming a chamber music venue. Freestanding reflectors and drop curtains give it two acoustic settings without touching the original fabric.
T30 3.6 S → 1.8 S (500 HZ)
VIEW PROJECT -
A stone station hall with unreadable announcements. We treated the room and the loudspeakers as one system and got the voice alarm through its test.
STI 0.41 → 0.57 (CONCOURSE AVG)
VIEW PROJECT -
A timber primary school with acoustic treatment built into the structure. Sixteen calm classrooms with the timber left on show.
T 0.95 S → 0.55 S (CLASSROOM AVG)
VIEW PROJECT
06CONTACTOUTRO
A NEW BUILDING OR A ROOM THAT ISN’T WORKING. TELL US ABOUT IT.
SEND A SIGNALstudio@visiblesound.eu