Design firm Populous has revealed that its design of the new home of English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has been fine-tuned to maximise the volume.
In an interview with GQ magazine, Populous said that “acousticians” had contributed towards the design of the new 61,000-seat stadium, which will replace the club’s 35,000-capacity White Hart Lane.
The company said that the stadium would allow for “more clean reverberation times” so crowd noises and chanting would last longer.
Christopher Lee, Populous’ managing director of EMEA, added: “The studies we’ve done show when you start breaking up acoustics everyone gets out of sync so they stop singing. So, once they create acoustics where they don’t break down, the reverberation times are quicker, they last longer and get louder. The louder people get, the louder people around them get, and so the atmosphere and the noise builds.”
The curved stadium roof will be lined with aluminium in order to deflect sound back into the stands, the report said.
“[We’ve even looked into] how much padding do we have in the seats, where do we have that padding in the seats, which also deals with acoustics,” he added.
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