During early 2007 we were asked to design and install a recording studio into a duplex apartment in Manchester. Fast forward to 2009; our client now having moved from Manchester to Shanghai, and being sufficiently impressed by our earlier work, approached us to talk about the possibility of a studio installation in China! This installation would include two very large rooms to be used as a control room and a live room – the live room needed to be large enough to cater for small performances as well as recordings. I’m sure by now it has become apparent that we at Amadeus and our manufacturers ‘Boxylab in Italy, like a challenge and therefore with a high five and big smile we of course said, YES!
Our client owns a highly successful designer fashion brand in China called Mein Grace. See a photo of her Shanghai store below:
The scale of this project was to be at least 20 times larger than the first project in Manchester. Although we have undertaken many installations across the UK that involve a great deal more studios than the proposed installation in Shanghai, the physical size of the individual rooms we were to install in China were far greater than anything we had taken on before. As a result, we took our client to visit variety of large installations in Italy. The ‘Groove Factory’ in Udine, Nr Venice offered the closest template (see photos below). The design process begun…
With Shanghai to become the “EXPO city” for 2010, our client required the Recording Studio and Live Room to be open in the summer. By January 2010 the general arrangement drawings were completed and signed-off and this +100m2 project went into the manufacturing process.
In April, two 40 foot containers were loaded and set off on what was to be a 10 week journey to the port of Shanghai. On Monday, July 5th the containers arrived in China. The off load and installation process began.
Above: End on Day 1, live room floating floor completed
Above: Day 5, completion of ceiling and room construction
Working in no less than 30° heat, and far higher humidity, the project was completed on July 16th; just 11 days after commencement. Shanghai can now boast it's largest and most contemporary “state of art” live-room/recording studio. Photos below
Above: The fished live room - adorned with printed acoustic panels, bass traps, mirrors, laminate flooring, studio windows, strip lights and spot lights.
Above: Project manager John Locke (Amadeus) with the Boxy installation team.
Give it some attitude guys!
Give it some attitude guys!
Above: Studio acoustic doors - trap the sound between rooms.
Above: Studio window from control room to live room - and LCD TV screen!
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