For Architects

Resolved before tender.
The technology, drawn into the architecture.

Cinema, light and control are spatial decisions long before they are equipment. We coordinate the acoustic envelope, service zones and plantroom logic into your drawings — while ceiling heights, reveals and structure are still lines on a plan.

Send the plans, start the coordination
See the process
Where we enter the project

Earlier is cheaper. Most site risk is drawn, not built.

Bring us in at any stage. The earlier the coordination, the fewer the compromises — and the calmer the residence at handover.

I

Concept

Room candidates, ceiling-height ambitions and the acoustic isolation strategy — flagged while they are still cheap to move.

II

Developed design

Screen wall, seating geometry, speaker zones and the lighting-control topology overlaid onto your developed plans and RCP.

III

Technical design

Service zones, plantroom footprint, cable risers and equipment clearances resolved into coordinated, tender-ready drawings.

IV

Construction

First-fix containment, backing and isolation details issued so the trades build the envelope right the first time.

V

Handover

An as-built, integrator-ready set: schedules, performance targets and the documentation your client keeps.

Read it in your language

One decision, explained to every reader.

The same engineering choice means something different to the integrator pricing it, the homeowner living with it, and the architect drawing it. Open the seat that fits you.

Concept

The acoustic envelope

The decoupled room-within-a-room that lets a cinema perform without disturbing the home — or being disturbed by it.

It's a sectional and structural decision: a decoupled inner shell with defined build-ups and a clear datum. We coordinate it against your ceiling heights and services before it quietly costs you headroom.
Concept

CEDIA RP22 performance levels

A shared, measurable grading (Levels 1–4) for immersive-audio design — so a cinema can be compared on engineering, not adjectives.

A common performance language for the whole team. It fixes the targets that drive screen size, seating geometry and speaker counts, so the spatial decisions you sign off stay defensible.
What you receive

Drawings that coordinate, not drawings that decorate.

Issued under your title block, or under ours for your client — your call.

DeliverableFormats
RCP & lighting overlaysKeypad, fixture and scene logic mapped onto your reflected ceiling plan.PDFDWGRevit
Acoustic envelope sectionsIsolation build-ups, mass/air/mass strategy and the room-within-a-room datum.PDFDWG
Sightline & riser sectionsSeating tiers, eye-lines and screen geometry resolved to RP23 viewing targets.PDFDWG
Equipment clearance diagramsConcealment, service access, heat and ventilation envelopes for every device.PDFRevitIFC
Plantroom & riser allowanceHead-end footprint, pathway reservations and serviceability planned, not discovered.PDFDWG
Integrator handoff setSchematics, schedules and performance targets the installer can build to.PDFSchedules

PDF / DWG / schedules issued today. Native Revit families and IFC exports are rolling out — ask for the current status on your project.

The coordination

A clean handshake at every stage.

The shared language

Standards we design around

Decisions made upstream, in language every member of the project team can hold us to.

Project typologies

Because the residence is private, the lesson is public.

Our engagements are confidential, so we share the problem and the resolution rather than the address. Each is a real coordination challenge, anonymised.

Glass-envelope media room

A living-pavilion media room wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glazing.

Constraint
No solid walls for speakers or isolation, and a reflective, lively acoustic.
Intervention
Concealed in-ceiling and discreet on-glass-mullion speaker strategy, motorised acoustic drapery zones, and a control layer that resets the room from cinema to lounge.
Resolved
Reference imaging preserved without compromising the architect's transparent envelope.
CinemaAcoustic envelopeRP22
Subterranean three-row cinema

A dedicated three-row cinema in a basement excavation.

Constraint
Fixed slab-to-slab height competing with risers, isolation and HVAC throw.
Intervention
Riser geometry and ceiling datum coordinated against duct routes; floating-floor and isolation build-ups detailed before first fix; plantroom relocated out of the acoustic shell.
Resolved
Every rear-row sightline cleared the row in front with the ceiling budget intact.
CinemaSightlinesPlantroom
Heritage whole-home control

Whole-home lighting and control in a protected heritage residence.

Constraint
Minimal chasing permitted, ornate ceilings, and no visible modern hardware.
Intervention
Retrofit-friendly lighting-control topology, keypad placement coordinated to joinery and reveals, and a containment plan that respected the listed fabric.
Resolved
A calm, invisible control layer that the heritage consultant signed off without objection.
LightingAutomationConcealment

Send the plans. Start the coordination.

A short conversation about the drawings — not a sales script. We'll tell you exactly where the technology touches the architecture, and what to resolve next.

Begin the coordination