A range of sound diffusion panels made of a mixture of sawdust and bio-based glue.
Sound treatment used to be regarded as a luxury. Now, more and more architects and interior designers recommend and specify measures to ensure surfaces in the spaces they design do not reflect sound haphazardly and endlessly.
We are all familiar with the experience of sitting in a restaurant and getting a headache after twenty minutes from the sheer noise of everyone talking and having to speak louder and louder. When sound waves hit bare, smooth walls, they bounce off at the angle they come in and travel to another bare, smooth surface and bounce off again. This continues until the sound wave dies off or, in some cases, it joins up with other waves and amplifies.
The solution is to place in strategic locations sound diffusion panels that break up the sound wave into pieces by deflecting them within their core. Our Pholiage range of sound diffusion panels employ ridges and cavities designed to catch and reorient sound waves so that they die out as quickly as possible. The material, a sawdust and bio-based glue mixture, is naturally suitable for breaking up waves due to its roughness and random surface structure.
We use a randomised placement of a quarter of a tetrahedron shell 8 mm thick to do this. There are other designs to choose from such as round, leaf, pyramid and rectangular prism.
The best part is, we use a bi-product of our industry and a sustainable, non-toxic bio-based glue to manufacture this material from scratch in our workshop. It saves the sawdust from being burnt and sequesters a certain amount of carbon. Phurniture is proud to design with this material and to announce more and more products made solely from this particular mixture to aid carbon sequestration efforts and to promote good practice in furniture making and sustainable material choice.
