Slugger Media (Newman Student Award)

SLUGGER MEDIA OFFICE CONCEPT:

Interior fit-out for Slugger Media, a media technology company known for it’s connection to Louisville and its vibrant traditions.

BUILDING INFORMATION:

Located on the 6th floor of a 15 story office building, the future offices of the local company Slugger Media are situated in the heart of downtown Louisville. The lower floors of the building are a parking garage, while the floor above houses a wealth management company, posing sound isolation challenges in both directions.

The currently bare rectangular floor provides 21,000 square feet of space to be transformed into a vibrant, comfortable, and efficient workspace, built from local materials and traditions.

SITE: DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE:

The new office is centrally located in re-emerging and bustling downtown commercial district of Louisville. Placed alongside West Jefferson Street, a heavily traveled urban boulevard, a large concern goes into acoustically buffering those traffic noises. With nearby fire stations and a newly proposed light rail system, the Slugger Media office will be right in the center of Louisville’s transportation.

ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND:

The fit out is designed to provide a natural isolation buffer between the primary environmental noise concern, West Jefferson Street to the north, and noise sensitive areas of the office. A corridor and fitness area dominate northern footprint of the space. Noise in the gym is already addressed to placate offices above. Noise levels in the corridor and lounge areas are satisfactory for their purposes with only transient disturbances due to the local fire station sirens.

WEST JEFFERSON STREET NOISE

STREET LEVEL NOISE: 65 DB

LIGHT RAIL NOISE: 55 DB

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MENS LOCKER ROOM & SHOWER 200 SQFT

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ARRIVAL FOYER 500 SQFT

LOBBY 150 SQFT

SOUND LOCK 85 SQFT

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CONTROL ROOM 230 SQFT FX 1

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MEETING ROOM 280 SQFT

MUSIC & VIDEO STORAGE 1370 SQFT

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VIDEO PRODUCTION ROOM 400 SQFT

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CORRIDOR 410 SQFT

PATIENT CARE GN REST PATIENT CARE ROOM ROOM ROOM 63 SQFT 93 SQFT 93 SQFT

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SECURE FILE STORAGE 175 SQFT

ACOUSTIC DETAILING:

MEETING ROOM 410 SQFT

LOBBY & PRCATICE ROOM 270 SQFT

MECH. 380 SQFT

WOMENS LOCKER ROOM & SHOWER 200 SQFT

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MUSIC STUDIO 210 SQFT MENS RESTROOM 250 SQFT

WOMENS RESTROOM 250 SQFT

GENERAL OFFICE STORAGE 460 SQFT

CORRIDOR 620 SQFT

STC CLASS: 35 OITC RATING: 30

EXTERIOR CURTAIN WALL Supporting a curtain wall window construction of .25” glass, 1” air, .25” glass, the vertically and horizontally continuous glass curtain wall system is accented with aluminum mullions.

FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY SPACE 1320 SQFT QUIET AREA & NOOKS 522 SQFT

PRIVATE OFFICE 140 SQFT

PRIVATE OFFICE 140 SQFT

PRIVATE OFFICE 140 SQFT

TYPICAL WALL CONSTRUCTION

PRIVATE OFFICE 140 SQFT

LIGHT STEEL FRAMING

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NURSES NOOK 45 SQFT

PATIENT CARE ROOM 88 SQFT

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GENERAL CIRCULATION 3500 SQFT

POST PROCESSING ROOM 180 SQFT

FITNESS AREA LOBBY 185 SQFT

WAITING ROOM 370 SQFT

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GN TOILET 40 SQFT

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YOGA STUDIO 380 SQFT

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ARTISTS LOUNGE 415 SQFT

FITNESS STUDIO 690 SQFT

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GN TOILET 40 SQFT

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SERVER 40 SQFT

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JANITOR SERVICES 110 SQFT

KITCHEN & STAFF BREAK ROOM 960 SQFT

MEETING ROOM 280 SQFT

5/8” GYPSUM

FIBER GLASS BATTING

OPEN OFFICE AREA 6130 SQFT

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CONFERENCE ROOM 570 SQFT

PLAN

TYPICAL PARTITIONS 5/8" GYPSUM, LIGHT STEEL FRAMING, FIBERGLASS BATTING TYP. WALL SECTION

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MUSIC RECORDING STUDIO RENDER The control room looks into the curvaceous live room, encouraging different configurations of ensembles and allowing for a comfortable editing environment.

VIDEO RECORDING STUDIO RENDER The video studio suspends itself in the space with curvaceous and flat walls for a variety of back drops. Alongside the filming studio runs a large storage are for sets, props, and costumes.

MUSIC AND VIDEO RECORDING AND PRODUCTION STUDIOS: MAIN WALL CONSTRUCTION Box in box construction is used for both studios. Isolation of vibration from the parking garage below required the use of spring isolated slabs. Gypsum sheets of ¼” thickness allow sufficient compliance for installation on the curved walls.

While this requires more layers than usual a benefit is intypical ductwork creased staggering of joints. Gypsum thicknesses are varied scale 1" = 1' 0" on either side of the wall to minimize the effects of mass-airmass resonances.

Scattering and Absorption Performance Scattering Coefficient

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STUDIO GLASS Control room windows are angled to counter mass-air-mass resonance issues, and minimize light glare.

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The western cell, located between the music production studio and an extensive storage space, houses a video production suite, capable of capturing video and voice recordings in a flexible environment. The main production room features a green screen and customizable lighting, as well as the capability to house elaborate sets, assembled and moved in directly from the ad6 5 jacent 7storage space. The proximity to the music studio promotes a synergistic relationship between the audio and visual arts.

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Video Production Studio - 730 sqft

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STUDIO GLASS STC 55

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STUDIO ABSORBER / DIFFUSER PANEL (28HZ TARGET FREQ.)

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WALL TREATMENT Combination m-sequence diffusers and membrane absorbers line the walls of the studio live room. The vertical slats are arrayed in maximum length sequences of slats and troughs, designed to scatter middle frequency sound. The outer sur2 of the slats have been sculpted to provide higher frefaces quency diffusion, extending the performance of the m-sequence pattern to a broader frequency spectrum. The slats are constructed in front of low frequency membraneDabsorbers, tuned to control room modes. The diffuser pattern will be transparent to low frequencies, allowing them to be absorbed by the underlying absorber. Meanwhile, the panel of this absorber will be opaque to higher frequencies, leaving the performance of the diffuser unaffected. See chart to the right to for predicted absorption and scattering performance of one configuration, tuned to 63Hz.

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Within the eastern cell lie the studio live room, control room, and an acoustically isolated practice area.

The large control room encourages collaboration in the production and composition processes, featuring ample5space for production technicians and 4 other personnel to work together in comfort. The organic, curvilinear form of the live room supports the performers and encourages musical expressivity in a close, comfortable environment. The practice space exists to give performers a convenient place to warm up as well as to provide employees with a fun, casual space to practice and make their own music.

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JACK-UP STYLE SPRING ISOL'S

studio glass, STC 55 scale 2" = 1' 0"

STUDIO ABSORBER / DIFFUSER PANEL (28 Hz TARGET FREQ.)

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1/4" LAYERED GYPSUM PER BENDING RAD. REQUIREMENT

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Music Recording & Production Suite - 795 sqft

ACOUSTIC DETAILING:

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Twin state of the art music and video production studios lie in cells conveniently adjacent to the open office space, inviting employee collaboration and involvement. Designed for flexibility and convenience as well as acoustical excellence, these spaces provide venues for both media production musical recreation. Their freeform shapes clad in local brick facing inspire creativity and daring while remaining grounded by the company’s Louisville roots, perfect for creating the hard-hitting content that has come to define Slugger Media.

C LINED DUCT WORK In order to minimize the HVAC noise in the studio and office 2 environments, this lined duct work solution mitigates sound air handler (to be resilliently mounted) transmission along the scale 1" = 1' 0" duct and the duct shaping promotes laminar air flow noise.

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25 GAUGE STEEL FRAMING SYSTEM

typical ductwork scale 1" = 1' 0"

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS:

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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS: B

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A medical consultation suite provides convenient and discrete medical services to company personnel and guests. The medical consultation rooms are designed to ensure patient privacy. The wall construction is rated at STC 55 and even assuming lower performance in the field, will render speech inside the consultation rooms unintelligible to listeners outside. The plot below shows the sound levels of raised voices in a consultation room, as transmitted through the wall, to be well below the level of the sound masking system, ensuring confidentiality.

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Medical Consultation Suite - 752 sqft

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SOUND MASKING A sound masking system is included in order to ensure comfort, productivity, and privacy in the open office and medical consulair handler (to beSpeakers resilliently mounted) tation suite. placed above the ceiling fixtures generate scale 1" = 1' 0" broadband noise in order to mask unwanted sounds and is the workspace and to provide some degree of speech privacy. These speakers are directed upward, toward the concrete ceiling 8L 6 in order to more widely diffuse their sound and obscure their locations.

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SPL (dB)

The live and control rooms of both studios present significant low frequency modal challenges.

Modes down to 30 Hz require the use of subwavelength and large membrane absorbers.

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KEY PLAN

MODERN OPEN OFFICE RENDER The open office layout poses considerable acoustic challenges, especially in conjunction with heavy sound producing adjacent programs.

MODERN OPEN OFFICE: Open Office Area - 6130 sqft

A large open office space forms the beating heart of Slugger Media. The open plan features ample circulation space between workstations, comfortably lit by natural light, creating a casual, collaborative, but focused work environment. The concrete slab ceiling is left bare, but sound absorptive clouds are suspended strategically throughout the space to control reverberation and conceal a sound masking system. Likewise, a measure of speech privacy is afforded by treating the columns.

The columns are fit with Helmholtz resonator absorbent panels with elements tailored to 500 Hz through 2 kHz.

Kitchen and Staff Break Lounge - 960 sqft

ACOUSTIC DETAILING: Conference and Meeting Rooms - 1540 sqft

Private Offices - 560 sqft

The private offices are located centrally to the open office space, and feature extensive glass walls to provide transparency and connection throughout the organization. Half inch monolithic glass rated at STC 36 serves to provide some level of speech privacy while maintaining visual transparency.

Quiet Conversation Spaces - 522 sqft

Small, quiet conversation spaces provide employees with venues for discrete conversations or phone calls, without disturbing their neighbors in the office space. Located, throughout the office, they are easily accessible to all.

The kitchen and break lounge is located just off the side of the open office area, separate enough not to cause undue disturbance, but close enough to further employee involvement and community.

BRICK Practical locally sourced building material, brick is used in structure and decorative accents within the design. Brick facing on the studio outer walls in particular adds substantial mass, boosting the existing STC 62 box-in-box construction.

Four conference rooms provide ample space for small meetings of up to 20 people at a time. STC 55 wall construction, coupled with a sound masking system, provides speech privacy for even raised speaking voices, making these rooms well suited for animated meetings or video conferencing.

Adaptable Assembly Space - 1320 sqft

Located in the center of the building, between the private offices and the music7 and video cells, the flexible assem8 6 5 bly space that can be configured both as a space for large meetings and presentations, as well as a more casual work environment.

A modular system of movable furniture can be D assembled to create a raised stage or spread around to create a casual, playful extension to the more traditional open office. A brick half wall lines the back of the stage, leaving the studios visible. The intimate size of this semi-enclosed supports unamplified speech while maintaining good intelligibility.

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INDUSTRIAL HEMP Woven hemp shrouds the PVC membrane panels of the studio absorbers and the material also serves as a high frequency ab3 2 1 sorber. Additionally, the foldable wooden shelves are supported by hemp rope, providing a sense of natural practicality.

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stiffened partition 1/2" = 1' 0"

HEMP & WOOD SHELF SYSTEM C

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typical ductwork scale 1" = 1' 0"

studio glass, STC 55 scale 2" = 1' 0"

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Conference Room - 410 sqft Medium Size (14 people) Moderate speech privacy for normal to raised speaking Visual transparency with storefront walls

Reception Lobby - 500 sqft Direct visual on entry elevators

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Music Studio - 795 sqft Curved walls faced with attractive local brick Acoustically isolated from entire office space A

Fitness Studio - 690 sqft Box-in-box construction acoustically isolates from office Amp systems up to 80 dBA used Visually isloated from office Exapnisve views of downtown Lousiville A

Atrists Lounge - 415 sqft Exapnsive views of downtown Louisville Spatialy isolated from rest of office space

Video Studio - 730 sqft Curved walls faced with attractive local brick Acoustically isolated from entire office space

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STREET SIDE EXTERIOR RENDER The office allows for an interesting view from the exterior. Considering all the exterior walls are glass, Slugger Media shows an impactful face towards West Jefferson Street.

FITNESS STUDIO: Fitness Studio Suite - 1655 sqft

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Given that healthy employees are essential to a healthy company, an on-site fitness studio provides all the exercise essentials needed to stay fit and happy. A large space featuring treadmills, weights, and other exercise equipment looks out from the corner of the building over West Jefferson Street, while a moderately smaller adjacent space provides a venue for group exercises. While proper sound isolating techniques are employed in the construction of this fitness suite, care has been taken to avoid any adjacencies to acoustically critical spaces where background noise might prove disturbing.

KEY PLAN

FLOATING FLOOR While placing the fitness studio in a corner of the building is great for natural lighting, annoying the neighboring tenants above becomes a problem. To facilitate levels up to 80 dB in the space, the gym is enclosed by an acoustic glass partition system. Treadmill footfall and disturbances from the parking garage below are addressed with a spring isolated floor.

QUIETCURTAIN

FITNESS STUDIO RENDER The fitness studio includes a multi-space set up allowing for major impact sound to diffuse before reaching the office space and ancillary programs.

QuietCurtain is an innovative solution to noise isolation problems inherent to curtain wall systems.

A maintenance free and self contained product, QuietCurtain adjusts to thermal fluctuations, sealing the noise vulnerable space between slab and glass.

SELF REGULATING CURTAIN WALL SEAL SYSTEM

ACOUSTIC GLASS ENCLOSURE ON FLOATING SLAB

QUIETCURTAIN

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