GREIT Studios Seoul

Designing a Global Benchmark in Seoul

When the GREIT collective commissioned MONTADECS to create a Hollywood-grade campus in the heart of Seoul, the brief was unapologetically ambitious: deliver three flagship rooms that could translate blockbuster scores, Grammy-calibre mixes, and immersive installations without compromise. We began with a blank industrial shell, mapping every structural beam, ceiling cavity, and adjacent tenant to model how low frequencies would behave before a single piece of drywall was ordered.

A hybrid of finite element modelling and on-site prototyping guided the acoustic envelope. We floated every room on custom stainless-steel spring isolators, then layered diffuser arrays milled from reclaimed Korean oak to avoid the sterile feel that many world-class studios fall into. The result is a vibe-forward interior where reverberation time remains within ±0.02 seconds across critical bands.

Signal Flow Crafted for Human Momentum

We architected a fully redundant fibre core using Dante and MADI backbones. Every patch, headphone feed, and 9.1.6 speaker array is addressable through a tactile routing layer we call RapidBus. Artists can move from tracking strings to printing Atmos stems in under ninety seconds, aided by an intelligent macro system that recalls room scenes, light cues, and console automation simultaneously.

The facility feels alive. Nothing slows our ideas anymore. — Lead Composer, GREIT

Client hospitality was treated as seriously as acoustics. We carved out a hidden wellness corridor with adjustable circadian lighting, creating reset zones that keep sessions productive late into the night. A dedicated concierge system syncs with production calendars, so instrument rentals, catering, and artist transport trigger automatically when projects hit key milestones.

To ensure the engineering muscle translated into day-to-day momentum, we designed workflows around human behaviour. Producers receive tactile cue panels with programmable gestures, runners view real-time backline status on their phones, and visiting artists unlock personalised headphone mixes via NFC badges when they step into a booth.

Long-term sustainability was addressed through predictive maintenance. Embedded vibration sensors in the floating floors flag anomalies before they become costly downtime, while a cloud dashboard alerts management when tube gear surpasses recommended usage hours. Energy recovery ventilators reuse heat generated by outboard racks, trimming the studio’s carbon footprint without sacrificing performance.

The project proves that best-in-class technology can coexist with a deeply human creative experience when every detail—from soffit angles to the scent diffuser schedule—is orchestrated with intention.