Unknown Works creates “otherworldly” music studio in London backyard

Unknown Works creates “otherworldly” music studio in London backyard

Architecture studio Unknown Works has accomplished Shou Sugi Bangers, a sunken music studio clad in charred timber, which sits within the backyard of a London dwelling.

Designed for an digital music producer, the soundproof studio is playfully named after its scalloped Accoya wooden cladding, which has been charred utilizing the Japanese strategy of Shou Sugi Ban.

Both internally and externally, the studio is meant as an immersive sound house and retreat. The cladding is organized in an undulating formation, forming a sequence of nooks the place the proprietor is inspired to take a seat and take heed to pure sounds within the backyard.

According to Unknown Works, noises akin to wind and birdsong are enhanced and altered by the CNC-milled surfaces of the cladding, which transition from minute grooves, harking back to vinyl records, to a smoother reflective floor at ear peak.

"We wished to increase the edge of the studio, to create a larger feeling of separation from town," mentioned Unknown Works.

"The easy floor is most reflective and was used to focus sound from particular areas of the encircling panorama to the ears of a sitter," it continued. "Where the accoya panels transition into the smaller ridges, the sound behaves in another way and acts to deaden reflection – altering from prime to backside on every panel."

The studio itself, accessed by an airlock double-door, is designed as a "room inside a room" and was created in shut session with a sound studio specialist Nick Whitaker.

Acoustic baffles and bass traps are strategically positioned to get rid of reverb, making certain an optimum audio setting for the proprietor to document and compose in.

"The structure of the studio is designed to isolate and withdraw," Unknown Works informed Dezeen.

"It feels otherworldly to enter, passing between the massive double door air-lock and shutting them behind you – like coming into a submarine."

"Coming out from a interval within the studio and sitting in one of many nooks is a part of the re-acclimatisation," the studio added.

"From an area separated from the skin world – you’re then invited to an area to concentrate on the pure world round."

To keep beneath the two.5-metre peak of the permitted improvement guidelines, Unknown Works partially embedded the studio into the backyard.

A big skylight permits the house to be naturally lit whereas retaining the sensation of coming into a meditative house.

Unknown Works is a London studio based by Ben Hayes, Kaowen Ho and Theo Games Petrohilos in 2017.

Other tasks by the studio embrace Pigment House, a north London residence with dusty pink surfaces and a semi-detached home in east London with vibrant yellow-rendered kinds.

The images is by Lorenzo Zandri.

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February 13, 2024 at 10:07AM