| ANECHOIC CHAMBER With the increasing technological advancements in regard to sound insulation and experimentation within design, the emergence of the Anechoic Chamber has been a particularly interesting invention. Currently used by manufacturers as to test their products noise emissions, prompting diverse sizes of these spaces to be produced as to provide enough useable room for a vast array of products, Anechoic chambers are a truly fascinating creation. This is primarily with their "99.99%" effectiveness of nullifying noise within its captured space. Although technically it is not completely silent, as 0.01% of sound can still infiltrate the space, these are undetectable to the human ear, therefore rendering these chambers absolutely silent, in what has been described as a 'sucking' of the sound from the space. These have had tremendous effects on those who have visited and experimented within these spaces, with the discovery emerging that if exposed to such a pure silence for an extended period of time, those who are experiencing the space begin to hallucinate, with themselves becoming the only producer of sound. Described as an 'ethereal' experience, in the detailed hearing of organs churning and functioning, as well as the sound of you own heartbeat becoming the only sound you are consciously aware of, these spaces appear playful with sound in an experimental, exploratory and functional respect, although also perhaps quite dangerous. Seen within the images, these spaces become possible with the use of the cleverly engineered Sound Absorption Wedges, of which are produced by 'ECKEL Noise Control Technologies' (http://www.eckel.ca/products/test-chambers/anechoic-chambers/anechoic-chamber-wedges.html). With this technology, sound becomes absolutely nullified within the space, sucking almost, whatever vibrations have been produced either through movement, voices or even internal organ processes as described above. However, these are extreme examples in relation to my own project, of which uses elements of the ideas portrayed within these precedents. |    |
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For our second Individual project for the Integrated Design Studio Module, we were to propose and design a Pavilion type structure for Nottingham's Victoria Embankment, either upon its recreation grounds or anywhere within the site boundary, of which was the belt of the River Trent and The Meadows. 
Of such a green expanse, complimented by its Memorial Gardens (the darkest shades of green within the image) and the detachment from the city in terms of natural spaces or intervention within its personality, I had wanted to create a largely vernacular structure. This had applied to the structural and aesthetic elements of the site, explained further with the panels, although this had bled deeply into the organic form that had eventually governed my entire development and production processes.
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