The room mode poured in concrete
By the time the slab cures, the bass response of the room is already decided. Most projects discover this two years later, from the third row, during the quiet scene.
Luxury home cinema, lighting & smart-home design consultancy
Residential technology,resolved as architecture.
Cinema, light, and control systems designed into the fabric of the residence — before first fix.
Kolosseum is the brand-neutral design office behind reference-grade private cinemas and smart homes. We resolve room geometry, the acoustic envelope, sightlines, and the control layer as drawings — so integrators, architects, retailers and interior designers build from certainty, not assumption. Founded in Brisbane; trusted on projects of significance across Australia and worldwide.
Why design comes first
The most expensive problems in a home cinema never announce themselves.
They are inherited quietly — at slab stage, at frame stage, at the joinery shop — and surface only when the room is finished and nothing can move. This is where an independent designer earns their place: before any of it happens.
The screen sized after the joinery
A cabinet maker works to a drawing. If the image geometry was never engineered, the screen is sized to the furniture, and every seat inherits the compromise.
Amplification that never met the layout
Channel counts, impedance loads and headroom are decided on a quote. The speaker layout is decided on site. When those two documents have never met, something gives.
The projector that runs out of light
Brightness is quoted in a showroom, on a small screen, in the dark. Screens grow, lamps age, and gain curves are unforgiving. The shortfall arrives quietly.
Cable paths that closed with the walls
The cheapest conduit ever installed is the one drawn before sheeting. The most expensive is the same conduit, twelve months after paint.
We don't list the fixes here — every room earns its own. These are conversations, and they cost the least when they happen early.
Pillars of Service
Three disciplines. One design office.
Real projects · not AI-generated
Agnostic Cinema Design
Brand-neutral expertise
Agnostic Cinema Design
High-performance environments designed from physics, not sales quotas. We hold no dealer accounts and carry no stock — every recommendation exists because the room demanded it.
HDMIEthernetBalanced audioSpeaker levelLFE / Sub
This is a fraction of an issued Kolosseum schematic. The full set covers containment, terminations, loading and commissioning — per cable, per channel.
Wingman · by KolosseumWingman finds the problems.
Wingman finds the problems.
We turn them into a planset.
Wingman is quickly earning recognition among AV dealers and manufacturers as the sharpest home cinema design tool in the world. It recognises the physics — modes, luminance, layout, RP22 grading — and Kolosseum designers make sense of it on a planset, so construction can happen.
Two editions · Konsult Lite & Konsult Apex
Your room · metres
Plan
Front elevation
Room ratio verdict
Promising room
100/100
Your proportions avoid the worst mode stacking. The detail — seating, treatment, layout — is where a design earns its keep.
First axial modes · 20–300 Hz
Length
Width
Height
Markers that align vertically across axes reinforce each other. That's the part you can hear.
Your full CEDIA RP22 grade lives in Wingman
Screen luminance, room modes, seat-by-seat performance grading — the complete analysis behind this score.
Unlock in WingmanRecognised where it counts
Trusted by the dealers and manufacturers who build these rooms.
Kolosseum designs are delivered worldwide — presented at CEDIA, referenced by manufacturers, and installed by integration firms who stake their name on the drawings.
CEDIA member · RP22 practitioners
What integrators say
Our ReachHome Cinema & Automation Design Across Australia.
Home Cinema & Automation Design Across Australia.
Global reach.
Home to a pedigree of global CEDIA award winners, Kolosseum operates from Australia while supporting projects across multiple continents. Our documentation travels wherever the project demands.
Many of the world's most respected speaker and electronics brands refer Kolosseum because they understand a simple truth, performance is decided early.
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Home Base
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Australia Service Areas
We partner with integrators across Australia to deliver specialist home cinema design, lighting control engineering, and smart home automation consulting. Whether you are building a dedicated home theatre in Sydney, a whole-home lighting control system in Melbourne, or a fully automated smart home in Perth, Kolosseum provides the independent design documentation your team needs to execute with precision.
Our services cover every major metropolitan and regional market: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Newcastle, Geelong, Townsville, and Cairns. As a design-only consultancy, we work alongside your existing installation team, strengthening project outcomes and protecting your brand reputation.
Serving home cinema designers, AV integrators, smart home installers, builders, architects, and interior designers throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT, and the Northern Territory.
One design office, four project languages
Choose the way you enter the project
The same engineering, translated into the deliverables and vocabulary each discipline works in.
For the delivery team
Your documentation studio, extended.
Most site risk is drawn long before it is built. Ambiguous early drawings become change orders, callbacks, and eroded margin on the floor.
CEDIA RP22/RP23-aligned, white-labelled, portfolio-silent by design.
Enquire about a schedule of ratesWhat you receive
- Resolved drawings, schematics and visual packages issued under your name
- Rack elevations, cable schedules and as-built discipline
- NDA-by-default engagement; we never touch your client relationship
- Wholesale schedule of rates — pay for depth, not overhead
The shared language
Standards we design around
Decisions made upstream, in language every member of the project team can hold us to.
For those who find their way here
Great work has never needed to shout.
Introductions, conversations, and trusted relationships have always been our way. If you've found us, we're glad you did.