052 REPORT
BELLA SKY COMWELL HOTEL
Company: QSC Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
The award-winning Bella Sky Comwell hotel in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, chose the Q-Sys integrated platform from QSC to route and manage much of its extensive audio infrastructure, from background music to conference audio. The instantly recognisable hotel, with its dual ‘leaning towers’ design, was built as part of the Bella Center Conference venue on Amager, the island off Copenhagen. Local audio-visual integrator AV-Huset was responsible for the audio infrastructure at the hotel, and chose Q-Sys as the management platform, installing a compre- hensive system supplied by Danish QSC distributor EM Nordic. Run from a control room in the hotel basement, the Bella Sky Q-Sys comprises a Core 1000 linked to 10 I/O frames around the building, 21 ISA amplifiers, a total of 10 compact two- way QSC AD-S 52 and 82 loudspeakers distributed amongst the hotel’s four bars and two restaurants, together with no less than 144 QSC AD-CI52ST discreet ceiling-mount speakers in the reception and other communal areas. Q-Sys is main- ly responsible for background music facilities at Bella Sky, although mic/line op- tions are provided in some of the hotel’s 28 meeting rooms and three conference halls, so audio can be networked for projections and corporate presentations. In the conference halls, Q-Sys also interfaces with a third-party environmental control system, as Ashley Cooke of EM Nordic explained: “It was my first installation with Q-Sys, and we had to ensure it would integrate with the third-party control system. I was concerned it would take a while, but it was literally a question of sitting down with the installers for 15 minutes, and then Q-Sys was all hooked up. “The hotel management were also pleased about the expandability of the system. We originally installed a fixed-architecture system running the then-current version 2.0 software and firmware, with 24 inputs and 68 outputs. You can imagine the smile on the faces of the installers and the customers when they were informed that future channel expansion would just require the latest firmware update - so they could make use of the new Flex Channels, which can be either inputs or out- puts - and not the purchase of a bigger core as they had expected. Partly because of that, plans are now being drawn up to extend the Q-Sys network across the whole of the Bella Center conferencing facility.”
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PLATAFORMA DAS ARTES
Company: Amina Location: Guimaraes, Portugal
With its modular structure, clean, crisp lines and minimal interior the Plataforma das Artes - located in the heart of Guimaraes, an historical city in Portugal - provides a blank canvas for artistic, cultural and social-economic activity. In an environment such as this, all elements require careful consideration, not least the audio system. During the initial sketches of this project, VMC Systems of Portugal was contact- ed and invited on-board. The first aspect of the interior it noticed was the huge expanse of space present in most rooms with the requirement to fill all with quality, clear sound all the while maintaining the modernist aesthetic. This would have been a near impossible task were it not for Amina Technologies’ invisible loudspeakers. Large rooms with acoustically challenging architecture make up the majority of the exhibition spaces within the Plataforma das Artes. Amina LFiT invisible loudspeak- ers were promptly specified due to their wide dispersion, impeccable clarity and their ability in being rendered completely invisible. The dispersive nature of Amina’s DML distributed mode loudspeaker product allows a significant reduction in the number of loudspeakers required to fill a large area compared to that of a conven- tional cone loudspeaker, here just two Amina DML distributed mode loudspeakers were required. One of the biggest challenges for VMC was how to control the excessive reverber- ation in the larger spaces. The solution was to use a special acoustically absorbent plaster finish on all the surfaces. Tests were carried out to ensure that a thinner layer could be sprayed onto the LFiT panel surface so as to comply with Amina’s installation requirement. The Amina LFiTs provide high quality background music, voice announcements
www.mondodr.com
and are used to re-enforce the dedicated voice alarm system. To aid commercial specifiers and installers Amina have made available a simple software package called SQSE that calculates estimated speaker quantity require- ments and sound pressure levels. Ideal for projects such as this, SQSE can quickly illustrate the benefit of Amina’s speakers in reduced loudspeaker requirements in nearly all situations.
www.amina.co.uk
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