UK - Based in Clapham, South London, Seven Lion Yard is a holistic health and well-being centre providing comprehensive psychological and wellbeing services to address both mind and body under one roof. The four-storey facility which opened in 2024 includes consulting and treatment rooms, and a large top floor studio.
The interior design, focused on calm, restoration, and relaxation, characterises the building, although following the centre’s opening, its team became aware of the need to combat the reverberant effects of its high ceilings and reflective surfaces. The acoustic properties of the centre’s spaces were detrimental to discreet one-on-one therapies and group activities. Determined to improve the environment, founder Madeline Jago contacted Polar to discuss a solution for the centre with the aim of significantly calming its lively acoustics. Polar’s Integrated Solutions division recommended Primacoustic panels as the optimal way forward and created a design that would significantly impact the problem.
Trusted local integrator GHA Group, based only minutes away in Battersea, was engaged to install the treatment. With almost 50 years’ experience of installation and hire in the AV business, GHA’s expert team has vast experience of every kind of site, and provided swift, efficient delivery without disruption to the work of the centre.
GHA installed 30 x Primacoustic Broadway Broadband Absorber panels throughout the centre. Designed for acoustic treatment where maximum control over primary reflections is required, and made from high-density six pound per cubic foot glass wool, these 2” thick 24” x 48” panels are particularly effective at improving intelligibility where the reverberant field and echo is excessive.
Madeleine Jago comments: “We’ve been very impressed with the acoustic panels installed in our consulting rooms. They’ve made a noticeable difference in dampening sound and reducing echo, which has helped create a much cosier, calmer atmosphere - ideal for our work in psychology and health and wellbeing services.
“The improved acoustics also support confidentiality, preventing sound travelling between rooms. An unexpected bonus is how attractive the panels are - they’ve become a design feature in their own right and really elevate the look of the space. We’re very happy with the outcome.”