Kurjak M., Domitrovic H.

Acoustic properties of spaces are pretty hard to achieve in modern architecture. In 21st century buildings with open plan workspace and with emphasis on glass surfaces room acoustic is sometimes neglected part of design. Something like that cannot happen in one broadcast studio where intelligibility of voice is important. The idea of this paper is to present the result of one integration of modern workplace, IT and technology support with the acoustic design of one inadequate room in use of broadcast studio. The inadequate room is one news agency organised as a big newsroom. After some time it was realised that the agency must contain it's own broadcast studio. The broadcast studio and the control room for it were implemented in already designed space of the news agency. The news agency is mostly made of glass surfaces. Place used for the broadcast studio was a room of cca 8 square meters. In front of the studio the control room was made, all in glass surfaces. Acoustical desing of the broadcast studio is achived by avoiding parallel walls and with use of the materials which absorb some sound frequencies. Nothing much could be done so the sound shaping is somehow completed with the use of propper professional audio equipement in the control room. This paper will present the results achieved with two different sound equipments in the control room with the idea of presenting the possibilities of sound shaping compensation or to show how architectural acoustic cannot be much changed no matter how good audio equipment we use.