University of Colorado Warner IMIG Building Addition

Overview

A new addition to the Imig Music Building enhances the university’s standing as a national leader in music education, performance, composition, and research. The addition includes a new recital hall, ensemble rehearsal hall with retractable seating for conversion to a second recital hall, dance studio, theatre rehearsal room, teaching studios, practice rooms, state-of-the-art recording studio, and dedicated wellness and entrepreneurship spaces, as well as many other facilities for faculty and staff requiring high acoustic standards.

The extremely limited footprint required vertical stacking of many acoustically critical spaces, leading to extraordinarily complex sound isolation constructions. Through a collaborative process involving close work with the architect and construction manager, extremely high levels of sound isolation were achieved, allowing for simultaneous use of teaching rooms that are directly adjacent to performance spaces. In addition to acoustics design, performance audio and video system design services focused on user-friendly systems to enable 21st-century functionality for performance and learning environments were provided.

Features

ENR 2021 Award of Merit Higher Ed/Research.