Audio, resolved inside your drawings.
We bring acoustic strategy and AV into the design programme from RIBA Stage 2, coordinated to your plans, not retrofitted to a finished room.
Acoustic and AV consultancy for architects and interior designers. You hold the design. We make sure the room sounds as considered as it looks.
A twelve-speaker distributed array on a coordinated grid: even coverage to the walls with no dead spots, absorption mapped to the finishes. Toggle each layer on or off to explore how the room is resolved.
The outcome your client measures is the one you designed
Retention, spend per cover and review scores are the numbers operators watch. The acoustic environment that determines all three is fixed by the architectural decisions, not the playlist. Sound does not have to be the thing left to the end.
Sound, owned from concept to commissioning.
We work the way you work. Drawings are exchanged in CAD and Revit. Acoustic modelling is delivered at schematic stage, while layouts are still open. Speaker positions are coordinated against your reflected ceiling plan, and material absorption is mapped against your finishes schedule, so the acoustic strategy and the visual strategy are resolved together rather than in conflict.
We coordinate with the wider team across structure, services and lighting, and we hold our scope through the stages rather than appearing at handover. Bringing sound and acoustics into the brief at RIBA Stage 2 or 3 is simply where the cleanest, most effortless integration is won. Our journal article on integrating audio at concept stage explores why timing rewards the whole design.
“Sound should be resolved as architecture, not retrofitted as technology.”
One scope, held through every stage
We enter at concept or schematic stage and hold our coordination through to commissioning, rather than appearing at handover. This is what working as an acoustic architect in London means in practice.
Our deliverables are coordinated with mechanical, electrical, and interior specifications, not issued after they are finalised. Read our journal on how sound design shapes architectural experience.
Concept & briefing
We review the brief, advise on the acoustic implications of the spatial layout, and establish the sonic strategy for the project.
Schematic design
Speaker positions, infrastructure routes and equipment locations coordinated against the architectural and M&E drawings while layouts are still open.
Technical design
Full specification documents, schedules and tender-ready packages issued in coordination with the wider drawing set.
Construction & commissioning
We oversee installation, attend site inspections, and commission the final system under real operating conditions.
The room sets the commercial outcome
Diners who experienced a venue as too loud refuse to return. Retention is set by the room, not the operator.
Source: Cornell Hospitality Research.Of negative guest reviews cite noise as the explicit cause. The acoustic environment the architect designs becomes the review score the client lives with.
Source: Zagat Survey data.These outcomes are set by the room before the doors open. See the full commercial case.
Our work is judged by what you do not notice.
Where audio should be felt and not seen, we make it disappear into the architecture. Where it should be a feature, we make it deliberate. Your scheme should sound as considered as it looks.
Who we have worked with
Notable collaborations include Superfutures Design Studio for Chotto Matte and Ben Adams Architects for Bisushima.
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The architect's guide to specifying audio systems
A practical reference for coordinating audio into the design programme. Covers timeline integration, specification methodology, and coordination with architectural and M&E packages.
Read an overview online in the architect's guide to audio systems, or download the full PDF below.
Download the guideWe provide acoustic consultancy for architects and interior designers across London and the United Kingdom. Our consultancy also supports design teams on international projects, collaborating remotely during design phases and attending site for commissioning.
Frequently asked questions
Because the room is the instrument. Once ceilings, finishes and service routes are fixed, the acoustic and coverage decisions have already been made, just not deliberately. Research shows that nearly half of negative guest reviews cite noise explicitly, and nine in ten diners who find a venue too loud do not return. Those outcomes are set by the architectural decisions, not by the installer who arrives at the end. Bringing audio into the design conversation at schematic stage means those decisions are made intentionally, in coordination with the wider project, rather than worked around afterwards. See the full commercial case for restaurant acoustics.
At concept or schematic stage. Once ceiling voids, structural elements, and finish specifications are set, the window for clean integration has passed.
Yes. We issue full schematics, infrastructure schedules, and specification documents formatted to coordinate with your existing drawing set.
Yes. We collaborate remotely during design phases and attend site for commissioning and final tuning.
A consultant defines the sonic strategy, specifies systems, and coordinates with the design team. An installer executes the physical build. We act as the consultant, working alongside whichever contractor you appoint.
Discuss your project
If you are planning a project and want sound resolved at design stage, get in touch.