2024-11-21T23:34:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150025505/how-algorithms-designed-the-sound-of-the-new-hamburg-concert-hall Alexander Walter 2017-08-30T18:30:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/qx/qxzl2hj9ufkx0m2k.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Detached from the rest of the building for soundproofing reasons, the 10,000 panels that line the central auditorium are the result of parametric design, a process of creating multiple individual designs using algorithms. A million individual cells ranging from four to 16cm long are cut out from the panels [...] The ivory coloured gypsum fiber acoustic panels contain a seashell motif and were designed by Swiss architect Herzog &amp; De Meuron with help from German studio One to One.</p></em><br /><br /><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/l5/l5fnjilpiukfo2df.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/l5/l5fnjilpiukfo2df.jpg?w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Interior view of the central concert hall. Photo: Iwan Baan.</figcaption></figure><p>"It would be insane to do this by hand," GCR quotes Benjamin Koren, founder of One to One, the studio that created the design algorithm for the concert hall's acoustic panels.&nbsp;"That&rsquo;s the power of parametric design. I hit play, and it creates a million cells, all different and all based on these parameters. I have 100% control over setting up the algorithm, and then I have no more control.&rdquo;</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5s/5sv0avon4wijaln1.jpg?w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5s/5sv0avon4wijaln1.jpg?w=514"></a><figcaption>Photo: Johannes Arlt</figcaption></figure></figure>