Studios Under Construction

Joe Egan's Studio

This a three room facility in Colchester Vermont, USA.
It is being designed by Fran Manzella of FMdesign

Below shows the first course of action taken in the existing structure. We added 6" of insulation to the ceiling and added a sandwich consisting of 5/8" sheetrock - 1/2"Celotex Soundboard - 5/8" sheetrock to all existing walls.

below shows that phase completed in the Live Room

"Plywood On Isolators" is pretty self explanatory. We used the Kinetics model K.I.P. isolation system which includes engineered cubes of densely formed fiberglass atop of which rests a 1/2" layer of plywood. Forms are put up around the perimiter and a 5" pad of cement is then poured. When the forms are removed, each slab is completely independent of the ajoining rooms' slabs.

This shot shows the workers as they finished pouring the cement for the Control Room's floated floor. The cable troughs are plainly visable.

This photo is taken from the rear left of the tracking room looking though the control room of Studio A. It shows shows the floated slab for Iso 1 (on the left side of the photo), the floated slab for the tracking room (foreground), and the floated slab for the control room. The cable troughs in the control room are clearly visable. The framing in the background is Studio B's isolation Booth and the lounge.

Due to its cost, I chose only to float the floors in Control Room A, the Tracking Room, and Isolation booth 1. We will raise the floor in Isolation Booth 2 with wood just to get it up to the same level as the rest of Studio A. New 2"X6" walls layered with 5/8" sheetrock, 3/4" MDF and another 5/8" sheetrock will sit atop the new slabs. The rooms' ceilings will sit atop the new walls, ensuring that the rooms will be structurally decoupled from the existing building shell. Air conditioning ductwork will utilize flexible rubber connectors to prevent any rigid contact between the rooms Studio B and the Video Editing room will have double wall construction with similar layers. Their ceilings will be much the same as in Studio A as well. The only real difference will be in the floor. They should finish framing the whole space within a couple of weeks and the sheetrocking should be done by the middle of January. All the treatments will be custom made on the premisise, so we're not anticipating moving in until sometime in April. I'll keep sending photos if you'd like. Thanks for the interest. This process has been more fun than I imagined and I'd love to share my experiences with others who are building their rooms.

Cheers Joe Egan