LOOP Immersive Sound Lounge by Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group

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Zaha Hadid Architects：由世界上最著名的表演艺术中心和音乐场馆合作的公司L-Acoustics是高级音频领域的全球领导者。L-Acoustics Creations作为L-Acoustics公司的其中一个部门——正在为住宅、文化和体验空间研究开发一项具有优良声音特征和前沿沉浸式全真声音的声音技术。其最先提出的音频设计方案原本是为专业场馆设计的，但现在已经被重置为一个带有多声道平台的私人礼堂——音频岛屿。

Zaha Hadid Architects：L-Acoustics is the global leader in premium audio, collaborating with the world’s most renowned performing arts centres and music venues. L-Acoustics Creations – a division within the company – is developing sound technologies with an unrivalled sonic signature and advanced Immersive Hyperreal Sound for residential, cultural and experiential spaces. Originally created for professional venues, L-Acoustics’ audio solutions have been reconfigured as the Island, a personal auditorium with a multichannel platform.

该音频岛的特别发行版——LOOP——是L-Acoustics Creations与扎哈哈迪德虚拟现实集团(Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group, ZHVR)之间首次合作设计的。ZHVR是扎哈建筑事务所旗下的一个致力于探索新兴沉浸式技术的可能性新专业研究单位。

The Island’s signature edition – LOOP – is the first collaboration between L-Acoustics Creations and Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group (ZHVR), a specialist research unit within Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) dedicated to exploring the new possibilities of emerging immersive technologies.

▼LOOP动画视频 LOOP Animation by Line Creative

LOOP结合了L-Acoustics的沉浸式声音艺术(L-ISA)的最高分辨率音频与ZHA的标志性设计语言及其不断发展创新的设计理念。其流畅的外表下隐藏着一系列尖端的硬件和软件。L-ISA Bubbles技术通过确保回放完全恢复当代专业录音的丰富分层及多维特征，回归音乐再现的基本原理。BluBubbles采用专有的Blu 23.1格式编码，在如此个人环境中创造了强大的音乐会级的音乐体验。

LOOP marries the highest resolution audio of L-Acoustics’ Immersive Sound Art (L-ISA) with ZHA’s signature design language and the studio’s ongoing development of innovative new concepts. Concealed beneath LOOP’s fluid exterior is an array of cutting-edge hardware and software. L-ISA Bubbles technology goes back to the fundamentals of musical reproduction by ensuring playback fully restores the richly layered, multidimensional characteristics of contemporary professional recording. Encoded in the proprietary Blu 23.1 format, BluBubbles delivers a powerful concert-level experience within a personal environment.

LOOP的24个独立的频道，可聆听前所未有的清晰、动感、真实的完美音频，让用户从艺术家的角度感受声音，或者在观看电影时，完全沉浸在最真实的音频中。

Listening to faultless audio of unprecedented clarity, dynamics and realism via 24 independent channels, LOOP enables users to experience sound from the perspective of the artist or to be become totally immersed in the most realistic audio while watching a movie.

ZHVR从自然形态和现代工程中汲取灵感，将LOOP的外边定义为曲线几何形状，不仅无缝结合了L-Acoustics的技术，还将设备抬离地面，宛如漂浮在空中，其可根据用途调节照明的集成照明设计也正好强调了这种漂浮效果。

ZHVR has drawn inspiration from natural forms and contemporary engineering to define LOOP’s curvilinear geometries which seamlessly incorporate L-Acoustics` technology while elevating the unit off the ground as if floating. Integrated lighting accentuates this effect and modulates illumination according to use.

LOOP的各种饰面，从手工木材到碳纤维，其细节和材料选择都旨在为用户提供最佳的声学性能。

LOOP is available in a variety finishes ranging from hand-crafted wood to carbon fibre; its detailing and selection of materials designed to provide optimal acoustic performance.

作为ZHVR的试点项目，LOOP的设计过程触及了整个由集团开发的VR工作流程，从最初使用沉浸式建模软件建立的草图模型到混合现实模拟允许评估设计的人机工程学和可行性，其整个的开发过程中的所有迭代，包括技术合作者的输入，都可以通过高清VR的演示以一种身临其境的方式呈现给客户。

A ZHVR pilot project, LOOP’s design process involved VR workflow developed by the group; from initial sketches using immersive modelling software to mixed reality simulations allowing evaluation of the design’s ergonomics and materiality. At any point within its development process, all iterations, including the technological collaborator’s input, could be presented to the client as immersive, high-definition VR demonstrations.