Architect, Frank Gehry is legendary for the curved surfaces and non-standard construction methodologies that characterize his work.  Acoustic Dimensions teamed with Gehry Partners on the New World Center in Miami.  One of the key design objectives of the new 756-seat hall is to immerse the audience in the experience of the music.  To accomplish this, the room not only immerses the audience audibly, but the room itself becomes an extension of the music visually.

As you might imagine, there is an art to designing video projection in a Gehry building.  None of the video projection screens are linear.  Consider what happens if you aim a video projector at a column or other curved surface.  The image distorts.  Part of our work was engineering a solution using digital image correction in a multichannel video server for each of the five main projection surfaces.  

Everything about the building bends the rules.   It is designed to reach beyond its own walls.  From the video art and live concerts  projected in high definition onto the large exterior wall to crowds in the park to the Internet 2 systems designed to support real-time collaborations between musicians in Miami Beach and anyplace else in the world, New World Symphony is the first concert hall to think like a digital world thinks--without regard to boundaries and geography.

Acoustic Dimensions provided the design of the projection systems for the interior and exterior, the audio systems and the Internet2 infrastructure.