Grammy award-winning Whitney Houston contracted RBDG to provide facility design and acoustical consulting for her private in-home recording studio. The firm designed a renovation of a section of her guest house into a control room and created an addition to accommodate a recording studio and a piano room. The goal for the space was to create a sonically up-to-date recording environment using the latest in technical equipment and yet provide a relaxed atmosphere without the pressures of a commercial facility. The studio won the 1995 Texas Society of Architects award for Interior Architecture.
The biggest obstacle was correcting a structure which was not originally built to meet recording studio needs. The control room was reconfigured and expanded to fit into an existing room in the home and the high ceiling studio area was added to the existing structure to accommodate the acoustical and functional requirement of a music studio and to complement the exterior form of the house.
Using the actual CAD construction documents, RBDG created an award-winning 3-D computer animated 'fly-through' of the studio design to help the owner visualize the space before construction began and in the final planning and development of the facility.
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