The BioWall in Silver Spring, Maryland

Dramatic Outdoor Video Space

The BioWall is an outdoor public space in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland for public enlightenment and entertainment. Avitecture designed, furnished, installed and now supports this unique, sliding, state-of-the-art, 16’ x 9’, HD video display. Offering a platform to educators, artists, students, scientists, and the community, the BioWall exists through the generosity of United Therapeutics Corporation, which specializes in manufacturing medicines to treat the rare disease pulmonary arterial hypertension. The BioWall operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Advisory Board Company Conference Room

The Advisory Board Company Conference Center has five conference rooms, each with its own Avitecture© AV system for the Board’s specific requirements. This divisible conference room space can easily accommodate any room layout without AV set-up. Ceiling microphones, loudspeakers and three pan-tilt-zoom cameras enable audio and video conferencing. For flexibility, an advanced digital switcher, connected both to the wired and to the wireless computer presentation systems, can route any source to any display. The AV racks are fitted into the millwork. Avitecture created effective fan-cooling and cable management in the small spaces for the AV equipment. Wall-mounted 12-inch touch screens and wireless Apple© iPads control the AV system. Avitecture met both the client’s and the architect’s exacting, challenging goals for easy-to-use, high-performance AV seamlessly integrated with the room’s striking elegance.

Videowalls, Unified Communications and LEED

A federal contractor gave Avitecture an intriguing challenge: design and build environmentally-friendly and easy-to-use videowall systems for two boardrooms in an LEED-certified  building. 
Avitecture’s elegant solutions for the two boardrooms surpassed the client’s goals.

For the corporate boardroom, the larger space, Avitecture’s solution was a Prysm 190-inch (4.8 m) diagonal videowall with an area of 75 sq ft (6.8 m2) because of its low-energy consumption, brilliant image quality, and powerful interactive features. Because a major design requirement was ease of use for executives leading meetings in the boardroom, Avitecture provided a Crestron control system with multiple touch panels throughout the boardroom to allow users to manage voice, video, room lights, and content. A powerful integrated system, remotely located, provides the intelligence and power to run the corporate boardroom’s displays and electronics. A DigitalMedia 16x16 Matrix Switcher enables a dedicated PC, laptops in the boardroom, CATV, and a Polycom unified collaboration system to be routed to the Prysm videowall. A Biamp AudiaFLEX digital signal processor and an Avitecture Ceiling Disk Microphone system join together deliver clear audio through Soundtube speakers powered by an Extron amplifier.

For the corporate executive conference room, the smaller space, Avitecture chose a 4x2 Planar videowall using 46-inch LCD displays. The videowall provides 50 square feet (4.7 m2) of viewing area. For ease of use in meetings, Avitecture chose a Crestron control system with a touch panel. In a closet behind the videowall is a Crestron DigitalMedia 16x16 Matrix Switcher that enables a dedicated PC in the rack, two laptop locations on the conference room table, CATV, and a Polycom unified collaboration system enables sharing voice, video and content. A Biamp Nexia TC teleconferencing digital signal processor and an Avitecture Ceiling Disk Microphone system together deliver crisp audio through Soundtube speakers powered by an Extron amplifier.

The Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum, Tucson, Arizona

The Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum, Tucson, Arizona, is an educational institution dedicated to an ongoing examination of the Holocaust through the lived experiences of people who survived the war and later lived in southern Arizona. More than 260 people from 18 nations have been identified as those who were persecuted by Nazism, survived, and later arrived in southern Arizona. They have contributed to the community in numerous ways and are highlighted in the Center’s examination of this complex history. The Holocaust History Center is committed to illuminating contemporary human rights abuses as they occur.

Avitecture designed and furnished the AV system for the Holocaust History Center.