"I consider myself as a musician. I want the congregation to listen to the music and worship wholeheartedly, not being disturbed by the room acoustic defects. Let them being immersed in the music, not in the echoes."

- Limesa Design

 

This was a project dedicated for the youth ministry in GKIm Hosanna, Bandung.

 

Young souls enjoy spiritful music, and consequently, contemporary instruments started to infiltrate church music. Churches which were dominated by classical music, soft piano sound, and heavenly choir voices, had shifted towards a more contemporary style in which distorted guitar and crashing cymbals are now replacing the earlier styles.  We didn't think that we need to restrain the change, but instead, we need to embrace the musical advancement, so religion won't be considered as a thing in the past.

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In order to accommodate these musical changes on religious songs, a different acoustical approach is necessary to enable the congregation to feel blessed by the worship. The hall was untreated and filled with echoes and reverberation which were nice for piano and choirs, but will induce the noisiness of drums and electric guitars. Therefore, limiting the sound reflection is considered necessary in order to control the reverberation inside the hall. A mixture of wooden panels and glass wool panels were designed to limit the reflection while at the same time randomizing the sound reflections to make a diffused sound field.

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Ax extra small control room was also added to manage the sounds emitted from the installed sound systems.