CASE STUDY – JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN

The Jewish Museum Berlin, integration of public address and media systems

Hidden technology - in the glass courtyard of the Jewish Museum Berlin (2007)

The project: The new glass courtyard of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, designed - like the spectacular and world-famous museum itself - by the star American architect Daniel Libeskind. His architecture expresses a highly symbolic formal language which makes exacting demands on materials and technical expertise. The same requirements applied to the integration of media systems, which had to be installed in the glass courtyard so as to seem invisible.

The challenge: Harmonious integration of audio, video and control technology into a versatile event and presentation venue with space for up to 500 people - a glass construction supported by four freestanding bundles of steel pillars, 13m in height, which spread into the roof like the branches of a tree.

The solution: Once the Berlin-based engineers, Acoustic Design Ahnert (ADA), had completed comprehensive planning of the technical fittings, ADA and ASC jointly tackled the preliminary systems engineering setup. The challenge was to develop a basic configuration of media control systems, wiring points in floor boxes and a connection system that supplied signals to a digital audio matrix, wireless microphones, the digital PA array, professional video scan converters and the media hook-up trolleys.