My MEng thesis at the Bartlett asked how acoustics can be engineered as a personal, adaptive layer of space. Not sound as an afterthought of architecture, but as a designed reality of its own.
The research explored auditory personalisation through extended reality, combining acoustic theory with a working physical prototype, a sound device built to test how engineered soundscapes shift perception of a room.
It is the academic root of everything on this site that listens or plays. Sonic Portraits, the Triptych and the Raindrop Drum all trace back to the questions asked here.
There is no such thing as a neutral space. This is where I first tried to prove it.
