Free guide for design professionals
The architect's guide to AV
How to plan audio, video, control and infrastructure into hotels, restaurants, villas and yachts — before ceilings, cables and budgets are locked.
Written for architects, interior designers and engineers. Practical checklists you can take to the owner workshop and to site, from the team that installs these systems on the Dalmatian coast.
- 32-page PDF
- Instant download
- English & Croatian
What's inside
Six short chapters, each built around decisions you make on the drawings.
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The case for early AV
Why a late AV decision costs more at every phase, the four things an AV integrator needs from the architect, and five questions for the first owner workshop.
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Spaces
Hotel lobbies, restaurants and bars, spa, ballrooms, villas, yachts, outdoor and poolside — what the AV brief looks like in each.
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Acoustics for architects
Reading a room before it exists; what stone, glass, water and vaults do to sound; three rules of thumb for speaker placement.
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Infrastructure
The equipment room, cable pathways and conduit, power, earthing and UPS, and the network — what to coordinate with each engineer.
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Equipment & budget
The six families of AV hardware, and what actually drives AV cost when you talk to an owner.
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Process
A responsibility matrix for the kick-off meeting, an 18-point site-survey checklist, how we work with studios, case studies and a glossary.
The guide builds intuition; it is not acoustic, structural or electrical design. Those stay with the responsible consultants, and AV planning is coordinated with them.
Who it is for
Architects
Mark AV zones, reserve the equipment room and route pathways while the plan is still yours to change.
Interior designers
Decide what is seen and what disappears — surface, pendant or flush — before ceilings and joinery are fixed.
MEP & electrical engineers
See what AV will ask of power, earthing, cooling and the network, and where the AV integrator needs your design.
Developers & project managers
Use the five concept-stage questions and the budget drivers to put AV in the cost plan at the right time.
Installed systems you can look at
The guide draws on AV integration work documented in our case studies.
