The winner of the Dine Hear campaign launched by the world leader in acoustic linings, Knauf was announced today with Phoebe Baker-Gabb of Melbourne’s Foolscap Studio named the inaugural Knauf Dine Hear Acoustic Designer 2013. Phoebe took home the $5,000 prize.
The Dine Hear campaign was launched to address a common complaint by many Australian diners about noisy restaurants.
A crop of Australian designers designed a ‘sound makeover’ for their favourite restaurant as part of a campaign to highlight the importance of great restaurant acoustics.
Foolscap Studio’s makeover concept for the Golden Fields restaurant in Melbourne’s St. Kilda addressed a problem common to many modern restaurants.
Baker-Gabb explains the restaurant is clad with hard, smooth materials, with the surfaces causing sound to reverberate around the narrow space, making it difficult for diners to hear one another and negatively impacting their experience.
To solve that problem, their design concept works with Golden Fields’ beautiful aesthetics to create a stylistic and ‘fractured’ acoustic ceiling that could add ‘great sound’ to the restaurant’s list of praises.
Stephanie Olsen, Knauf’s Senior Product Manager commented the Dine Hear campaign was about improving the acoustics of great Australian restaurants.
