Sennheiser has installed its TeamConnect Ceiling 2 (TCC 2) in the auditorium of Gaia, a net-zero building at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), to elevate hybrid learning experience for its students.
Gaia is home to NTU Singapore’s Nanyang Business School, one of the most established business schools in the Asia-Pacific region. At its 190-seat auditorium in Gaia, the school required a seamless communication system to support a hybrid learning experience for its diverse cohort.
?The auditorium is characterised by a 9-metre ceiling height at the front with varying height running throughout the rest of the room due to the cascading theatre seating arrangement. To fit this auditorium with an AV system, the Sennheiser team had to calibrate the system and adjust for more than the recommended distance, while taking into consideration the differing ceiling-to-floor distance throughout the auditorium.
AV Media was the system integrator appointed for this project and they recommended Sennheiser’s TCC 2. Given the size of the auditorium, multiple units of TCC 2 had to be installed. Over a period of two months, the Sennheiser team worked closely with the AV Media team to install 12 units of TCC 2 with intricate planning, simulations, and calibration in order to achieve the desired outcome.
The initial design planned for 18 TCC 2s to be installed in the auditorium, and following a detailed analysis, the amount was later reduced to 12. Two units of TCC 2 were installed at the front of the auditorium to serve as the pickup for the stage area, while the 10 other units were spread across the theatre seating area for audience pickup. The team was conscious about installing just the right number of TCC 2s to cover all areas of the auditorium so that no devices were deemed redundant.