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Museum Case Study
The Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Yad Vashem's new Holocaust History Museum brings history to life with advanced AV solutions from Avitecture and Barkai.
Avitecture‚ Inc. (AVWashington)
Sidney L. Lissner, President of Avitecture based in Sterling, Washington, created the AV systems along with a project team from his staff of designers, installers, consultants and technicians.
Barkai Benny Brookstein Ltd.
Israel's largest AV integrator, Barkai's projects include many of Israel's most prominent public facilities, government buildings and museums.
CHALLENGE
Seamlessly integrate AV systems into the new Holocaust History Museum's intricate building, part of Yad Vashem's 45-acre complex of museums, monuments, archives and resource centers. Designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the new building includes a Holocaust History Museum, Hall of Names, Museum for Holocaust Art, Visual Center, Learning Center and the Exhibition Pavilion.
Goal: use multimedia technology to provide a more dramatic, rewarding experience for more than two million visitors a year. Showcase AV-supported exhibits featuring artifacts, photographs, texts, and computer assisted presentations using state-of-the-art technology. Integrate the AV technology with the unique architecture and symbolic design of the new museum building.
Literally dug into a trough on the slope of Har Hazikaron, the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem – the new museum presented tremendous acoustical challenges. The geometrically complex, prism-like structure continuously changes in width and curvature throughout its length.
SOLUTION
The Avitecture design features two parallel fiber spines that feed each loudspeaker, display, projector or other component in order to connect four separate control rooms spaced along the museum's 175-meter floor. To achieve the control and flexibility needed, the design team based the networked media system on Biamp Systems' Audia Digital Signal Platform. The design required more than 80 audio channels, all fed through eight AudiaFLEX units with CobraNet®. AudiaFLEX's simple, flexible platform allowed the AV integrators to select any configuration of input (IP2) and output (OP2) pairs to create the desired system, without design compromises. Multi-channel audio is easily and seamlessly distributed among multiple units via CobraNet, using economical Cat-5 cable and fibers between the control rooms. Each AudiaFLEX unit provides the Museum with up to 24 channels of I/O.
“Everything audio goes through the Audia Digital Audio Platform. It's the most powerful, flexible, and modular technology available.”
- Ronen Brookstein, Barkai Managing Director
SYSTEM SPECIFICS
Most of the 120 loudspeakers are special models from Fohhn Audio, with Tannoy units used for specific applications. The 13 amplifiers are Cloud multi-channel models. The video playback systems employ AV Stumpfl CF-Card MPEG players and AV Stumpfl's Wings software. More than 130 video streams feed over 150 Boland Communications LCD display units, 22 NEC PDP monitors, 33 Sharp projectors and 6 Barco projector displays.
Photographs and artifacts are displayed by computer presentations and an advanced AV system.
- SYSTEM COMPONENTS
- Audia® software
- 8 AudiaFLEX DSP units with CobraNet®
- 120 Fohhn Audio loudspeakers
- Tannoy loudspeakers for specific applications
- 13 Cloud multi-channel amplifiers
- AV Stumpfl CF-Card MPEG video players and Wings software
- 150+ Boland Communications LCD display units
- 22 NEC PDP monitors
- 33 Sharp projectors
- 6 Barco projector displays
CONCLUSIONS
The vision of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum was brought to life through people
of different disciplines, expertise and countries working together to accomplish one of the world's most distinctive architectural structures and AV designs. The Audia Digital Audio Platform allowed the consultants and integrators to imagine, create and configure a networked media system to overcome massive acoustical challenges, saving valuable resources and installation time in the process. The result is a flexible, easily expandable AV system that does justice to the historic events it presents.
“Audio was certainly the primary hurdle we had to overcome in this open, non-conforming space. Fortunately, with Audia, the most challenging audio environments can be brought under control.”
- Ronen Brookstein, Barkai Managing Director
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