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How architects’ use of textile innovation to enhance well-being inside buildings proves sound idea

  • Danish company Kvadrat Soft Cells offers high-performance acoustic panels, which form part of designs to create positive environment in rooms or buildings
  • Customisable concept used in global projects, including Shanghai’s West Bund Museum, to ensure ideal quality of auditorium’s audio, video and performances

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Studies show that acoustics, or the sound transmission quality, of a room or building can affect the mood of the occupants or residents. Pleasant sounds encourage a positive and productive mindset, but unfamiliar sounds can have a negative impact on a person’s temperament and well-being.

This means innovative designs that provide a positive acoustic environment and enable good sound regulation inside a space are crucial considerations for architects.

The Danish company Kvadrat Soft Cells – owned by Kvadrat, a contemporary textiles company at the forefront of design innovation – provides the perfect solution.

Its fully customisable, high-performance acoustic panels, or “Soft Cells”, enable a specialised level of acoustics control inside buildings.

The original Soft Cells concept was to develop an innovative, flexible sound-absorbing product offering aesthetic excellence and outstanding versatility, which showed the architectural design possibilities of textiles.

The auditorium at West Bund Museum, in Shanghai, China, was designed in collaboration with Kvadrat Soft Cells to create a space with exceptional acoustic performance.
The auditorium at West Bund Museum, in Shanghai, China, was designed in collaboration with Kvadrat Soft Cells to create a space with exceptional acoustic performance.
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