The Quiet Half
The client is a surgeon who sleeps badly. Upstairs, every surface was chosen for what it absorbs.
- Scope
- Interiors only
- Place
- Siripuram, Visakhapatnam
- Type
- Penthouse
- Area
- 3,800 sq ft
- Programme
- 14 months quoted, 15 taken
- Completed
- 2025
Materials
- Cork
- Wool boucle
- Oak
- Blackened steel
- Handmade paper
Credits
- InteriorsStudio
- AcousticsIn collaboration
The client is a surgeon who operates four days a week and sleeps badly. The brief was, verbatim, 'I want to come home and hear nothing.'
The lower floor behaves like a normal home: stone, glass, a kitchen that clatters. The stair is the border. Above it, every surface is chosen for what it absorbs: cork underlay beneath oak, wool on the walls behind linen, doors on soft-close everything, no downlight that hums.
We measured 42 dB in the master bedroom at 9pm on a Friday. The street outside was 68.
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