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Sitar Arts
Center |
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Location: |
Washington, DC. |
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Program: |
New community performing and visual arts
center. |
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Budget: |
$3,500,000.00. |
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Schedule: |
Design completed 2004. Construction
completed 2005. |
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Acoustical Design Collaborative, Ltd
provided room acoustics, sound isolation,
and HVAC noise control design for a
community arts center that included dance
studios, 10 music practice rooms, a 150-seat
recital hall, art and gallery spaces, and
administrative offices. The facility, which
occupies an abandoned 1920s automobile
dealer showroom, is located directly below
new luxury condominium units. Despite a 10
inch thick overhead concrete slab, extensive
sound isolation was necessary due to dance
and music practice sessions, concert
performances, and social activities. Sound
isolation for the music practice rooms and
recital hall feature box-within-box
construction that does not contact the
building structure. The acoustical finishes
in the recital hall permit varying the room
acoustics for different performances while the
acoustical finishes in the dance studios were
selected to blend with the "industrial" design
aesthetic. Acoustically lined ductwork and
sound attenuators control HVAC noise and
“crosstalk” sound transmission between
adjacent music practice rooms. The Sitar
Arts Center provides a community resource to
an economically diverse neighborhood and is
a successful example of the District of
Columbia’s initiative to merge community and
residential spaces under one roof. |
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