Penthouse Audio Design
Project Type: Residential Audio Design
Location: Fulham, London
Year: 2025
Client: Private Client
SDS Role: Architectural Audio Consultancy
Project Context
A private penthouse in Fulham required a complete home audio system extending across the bedroom, living space, kitchen, gym, and games room. The client wanted a solution that delivered seamless zonal control and high-performance listening, while sitting confidently within a carefully composed interior scheme.
Design Constraint
The brief was not to conceal the system. The loudspeakers were intended to hold visual presence as sculptural elements within the space, while remaining precisely aligned with the quieter architectural gestures, material choices, and sight lines of the interior. The challenge was to achieve strong acoustic coverage and intuitive usability without compromising spatial balance or design coherence.
Sonic Concept
Full residential audio consultancy delivered from concept through to commissioning, including zonal system design, passive loudspeaker specification, Wi-Fi streaming architecture, DSP driven system setup, and integrated control via mobile app and wall mounted remote interface. The system was engineered to provide consistent performance across multiple rooms, supporting both immersive listening in key social zones and flexible daily playback functionalities throughout the home.
Integration Approach
Each zone was planned in response to room function, circulation, and visual composition, allowing the loudspeakers to operate as intentional design features rather than secondary technical additions. Speaker positions, coverage, and control logic were mapped to support natural use across the penthouse, with clean infrastructure integration and a unified user experience across all zones. System commissioning focused on tonal consistency, reliable distribution, and smooth transition between spaces, ensuring the audio experience feels continuous as the client moves through the property.
Project Outcome
A fully integrated penthouse audio environment that combines expressive visual presence with refined multi-room performance. The result is a technically resolved, architecturally aware system that enhances everyday living, supports entertaining, and reinforces the identity of the interior through both sound and form.

Penthouse Audio Design
A private penthouse in Fulham required a complete home audio system extending across the bedroom, living space, kitchen, gym, and games room. The client wanted a solution that delivered seamless zonal control and high-performance listening, while sitting confidently within a carefully composed interior scheme.
The brief was not to conceal the system. The loudspeakers were intended to hold visual presence as sculptural elements within the space, while remaining precisely aligned with the quieter architectural gestures, material choices, and sight lines of the interior. The challenge was to achieve strong acoustic coverage and intuitive usability without compromising spatial balance or design coherence.
Full residential audio consultancy delivered from concept through to commissioning, including zonal system design, passive loudspeaker specification, Wi-Fi streaming architecture, DSP driven system setup, and integrated control via mobile app and wall mounted remote interface. The system was engineered to provide consistent performance across multiple rooms, supporting both immersive listening in key social zones and flexible daily playback functionalities throughout the home.
Each zone was planned in response to room function, circulation, and visual composition, allowing the loudspeakers to operate as intentional design features rather than secondary technical additions. Speaker positions, coverage, and control logic were mapped to support natural use across the penthouse, with clean infrastructure integration and a unified user experience across all zones. System commissioning focused on tonal consistency, reliable distribution, and smooth transition between spaces, ensuring the audio experience feels continuous as the client moves through the property.
A fully integrated penthouse audio environment that combines expressive visual presence with refined multi-room performance. The result is a technically resolved, architecturally aware system that enhances everyday living, supports entertaining, and reinforces the identity of the interior through both sound and form.
Audio Design
Sonic Design Studios
Interior Design
Guy Laurie
System
Pequod Acoustics custom integration
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