Designing the Isabel
Published on Feb 05, 2016
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Designing the Isabel
A technical look at Isabel Bader Centre
The Isabel Bader Centre's
grand opening is
Sept. 20, 2014
The Isabel includes
- A 92-seat film screening room
- A 100-seat black box studio theatre
- Music rehearsal hall
- Classrooms and film editing suites
The crown jewel of
The Isabel is the 566-seat Performance Hall
"We wanted
to create a (recital hall) that could potentially be unparralled in the world."
Architect
Craig Dykers
What makes the
$63 million facility special?
Sound engineering was the main priority when designing the Performance Hall
Two-foot concrete walls muffle noise outside
the Performance Hall
The audience wouldn't hear someone pounding the floor outside with a hammer
It's a building within a building
-- no part of the Performance Hall directly touches the rest
of The Isabel
Heat and cool air enters the hall silently through
floor ducts beneath
each seat
Curved walls reduce echo and provide
lively accoustic sound
The small pieces of wood that jut out are the equivalent of fine tuning
Retractable drapes allow the hall's sound to be customized for each artist
A hard rock band
or classical musician can perform and engineers are able
to control the sound
The Rehearsal Hall is designed to exactly mimic the acoustics
of the Performance Hall
This allows musicians
to warm up, then seamlessly move to the Performance Hall
New York-based Arup designed the Performance Hall's acoustics using their Virtual Soundlab technology
The technology allowed Arup to listen to the hall's sound environment before it was built
The Isabel was designed by firms
N45 (Ottawa) and
Snøhetta (Oslo)
other Snøhetta projects
- New York City Times Square reconstruction
- Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion
- Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in NYC
- Nobel Centre - The Space Between in Sweden
