Private cinema designed by Kolosseum - resolved acoustics, sightlines and finishes
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Engineering the modern residence. Independent home cinema and smart home design.

Independent design and engineering for private cinemas and the technology around them. Any appropriate brand. Any location. One accountable design.

  • Led by a CEDIA Global Awards Judge
  • No hardware sales. No product margin.
  • Projects on six continents

Change one decision.Watch the whole room respond.

Move a row, change the screen or alter the room. One small decision shifts viewing distance, screen size, sightlines and speaker angles. The work is balancing them together, not solving each in isolation.

Preparing the room
Seats per row
3
Screen
157″16:9
Viewing distance
4.22 m
Viewing angle
45°
Front left / right
19°
Surrounds
100°
Rear surrounds
133°
Heights
34° / 131°at 45°
Seating rows
Speaker layout
6.5 m
4.2 m

157 inch screen, 4.22 m viewing distance, 45° viewing angle.

A Kolosseum private cinema in design development: tiered seating facing the screen wall, with timber acoustic panels and warm cove lighting

Design-development render

Stand inside a resolved room.

A Kolosseum cinema in design development, before anything is built. Drag to look around, or walk through every room.

High end is a price point.High performance is an engineering outcome.

Which outcome are you responsible for?

What Kolosseum protects depends on where you’re sitting.

45°19°100°133°4.20 m6.50 m4.22 m
The view from the seat: screen size, distance and viewing angle.

“I need confidence that the investment will produce the experience I have been promised.”

“Kolosseum gave us a roadmap before we entered any showroom.”
Private client, Brisbane
Explore your path for private clients

Kolosseum works in one of two ways. We are appointed directly as the client's independent design consultant, or engaged confidentially as the integrator's white-label design partner - never both on the same project.

Your brand at the front.Our cinema engineering behind it.

For integrator-led projects, their relationship and brand lead. Kolosseum provides the modelling, documentation and cinema engineering behind the outcome.

“We tendered against firms twice our size and won on the quality of our documentation package.”
Installation Director, Perth

RP XXII

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40 sheets · Two disciplines

Room planning and construction coordination.

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Launchpad

Your name on the plans. Your team in control.

Illustration of plans becoming an organised Launchpad drawing set

For electrical contractors and integrators. We turn supplied drawings into a partner-branded, editable working set. You present the project with clarity and make the everyday changes yourself, without building a drawing team.

Cinema-design intelligence, built into our own tools.

Konfigurator cinema concept with a screen, two seating rows, speakers and room dimensions

Konfigurator

See it. Feel it… before it exists.

Explore your screen, seating and speakers in Konfigurator. Then let Kolosseum turn the possibilities into a resolved cinema design.

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Wingman Konsult

Close bigger cinema systems by making the design conversation visible.

A white-label workspace integrators use to develop projects, train teams and walk clients through the maths and trade-offs behind a properly resolved cinema, all under their own brand.

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AI gave an answer. The forum gave opinions.Neither will answer for the room.

Someone asked AI where their speakers should go, then asked a forum to check the answer. Anyone who has been down this path knows it pays to be patient and ask a professional first.

  1. The speakers are positioned from the walls, not the listeners.

    Unverified0.6 m from each side wall

  2. An exact placement is taken from a diagram marked not to scale.

    Unverified“Much closer to lounge than appears in this diagram”

Not every project needs Kolosseum.And we’re not right for every project.

We’re brought in when the room matters, the team values collaboration, and getting it wrong is more expensive than getting expert advice early.

  • Complex rooms

    Where architecture, acoustics and technology must work as one.

  • Serious teams

    Where architects, designers and integrators want better answers... not another opinion.

  • Discerning clients

    Where judgement, discretion and getting the details right genuinely matter.

The right project has more at stake than the equipment.

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Designed in Brisbane.Trusted globally.

Better rooms. Better practice. We teach, build tools and contribute to industry standards so better design is easier to recognise and deliver.

  • 25 years across AV and electrical
  • Hundreds of rooms engineered

Documentation is delivered to project teams in every Australian capital and regional market. Service areas

Globe showing Kolosseum projects delivered around the world

The questions we're asked first.

Doesn't the integrator already provide design?

Many integrators design well. The question is not whether a drawing exists. The question is whether one accountable design basis coordinates the room, the performance target, the architecture, the services, the trades and the final verification. Kolosseum can be appointed directly or engaged confidentially as the integrator's design partner.

Why should design be a separate professional fee?

An equipment proposal defines what will be supplied. A professional design appointment defines what the complete room must achieve, how it will be built and how the result will be judged. Keeping that scope visible makes the accountability visible.

Who does Kolosseum work for on a project?

Most often, an integrator appoints us as a confidential design partner. We are also happy to be appointed by a client, architect, builder or another project party that understands the value of independent engineering. One party appoints us, and we coordinate the room, technology, services and documentation for the wider project team.

Do you sell any hardware or equipment?

No. We are a design-only consultancy. This independence is our core value proposition; it ensures every recommendation is made purely on technical merit and project goals, not on dealer margins or stock levels. We are paid to protect the outcome, not to sell the parts.

Bring us in while the decisions are still open.

Compare Project Discovery and Independent Project Review, or move directly into a complete design scope.