This is a studio being built for I-India which is a NGO looking after street kids in Jaipur - India.
The construction project manager is Charoo Prabhakar.

Charoo is in his early twenties and comes from a remote place in the Rajatshan desert where they just get sand, nothing else :) , so this is quite a challenge for a young man from that background.

This is the original plan Charoo had worked out:

After many layout designs we finally settled on this plan as a way to utilise the rooms only making cosmetic changes to the building structure as it's all double brick and all the walls support an upstairs.

 

The building looked like this before we started.
This shows the staircase which was being sealed off from the upstairs

and the doorway into the office

They started with the control room construction based on this plan

The Equipment

Genelec have donated

Genelec 1032A as a main monitoring system
and 1029A as near field

Tascam have donated

1. TASCAM DM-24
2. TASCAM DA-78HR (Multitrack)
3. TASCAM DA-40 (Dat)
4. TAscam- 102MkII (Cassette Player)
5. Tascam MD (MD Player)
6. PC, with Dual Monitor Interface

John Sayers Productions also offered their Design Services for free.

 

So the construction started,
first with the ceiling which we sealed off the from the upstairs with a new added drywall ceiling with insulation in the cavity.:

The front window had top be moved to the center of the room, you can see the still wet concrete where the window openning was changed.

And the rear wall framing was done.

More to come - cheers John

 

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