The multiple technological advances in architecture have made the sky suspended or ceiling, an essential element for the reduction and optimal management of sound in buildings.
A suspended sky combines technology, avant-garde and unique designs, applying floating acoustic panels that can isolate sound in two different ways:
- Absorbing sound waves, preventing them from spreading in a space.
- Blocking the sound so you do not travel in an adjacent room.
Today we show you 5 spaces where it is necessary to use suspended skies to achieve better acoustics.
Corporate offices
In corporate offices, employees state that the intrusion of unwanted noise is one of the main factors of dissatisfaction, work fatigue, lower efficiency and a higher level of stress.
Unwanted noise is often linked to the privacy of conversations, listening to unwanted conversations of others and sound levels too high.
According to Junsoo Kim and Richard de Dear (University of Sydney and Center for the Built Environment of the University of California), through a survey of about 42,000 workers in offices in Australia, the United States, Finland and Canada, they determined that The lack of privacy in the office and in the conversations is the main cause of annoyances in the collaborators.
In these cases, the main function of the suspended skies is to absorb the sound that would normally bounce from the ceiling to the workspaces.
The pieces that make up the suspended sky are flexible to offer the right balance, even when the employees concentrate a minute and collaborate with each other in the next.
Educational
An educational area has multiple open areas, such as cafeterias, auditoriums, gyms and audiovisual halls. All these require meeting different acoustic and durability needs.
Noise reduction is key and can be achieved with acoustic panels to absorb sound and prevent it from moving to adjacent areas. Cafeterias and multipurpose rooms are also ideal places to combine acoustic design options.
Medical care
Clinical laboratories, hospitals, operating rooms and recovery centers need acoustic solutions with high performance, durability and easy maintenance and cleaning.
In this type of place, people spend prolonged times derived from medical interventions, so it becomes necessary to have an extremely low level of sounds, which is achieved with a suspended sky.
Commercial environments
In commercial and consumer spaces, good acoustics is key to helping customers and staff communicate clearly, shopping centers and points of sale need a suspended sky as versatile as they are. This sky must have a superior resistance to withstand long periods of use.
Aerial terminals
When a person is going to take a flight, usually encounters situations ranging from a delay of 15 minutes to a scale of 8 hours, passengers use the waiting rooms to spend time in different ways.
A sky suspended in an airport creates a quiet and cozy area, away from the hectic pace of the central flights and the crowded corridors.
The control of the acoustics in the enclosures is a subject that cannot be left aside, because they are increasingly necessary the places that help people to concentrate, to work or to simply pass a moment of tranquility.
The suspended skies are an excellent tool to isolate and considerably reduce the annoying and incessant external noises.
