Outdoor Home Cinema — Cotswolds

A Very High End Design for an Outdoor Home Cinema in the Cotswolds

This extended and renovated property in the Cotswolds AONB is a genuinely special project. Our clients approached us initially to install a high-end audio system throughout the grounds — and over the course of client meetings this evolved into a stunning outdoor cinema. The original design was a projector-based system projecting through floor-to-ceiling windows onto a specially rendered wall. The client then decided more wow factor was required. The final design is a C Seed 201″ (5.11m) TV that rises from the ground in a column before unfolding to reveal the screen — a technological marvel with zero footprint when not in use.

The Outdoor Audio System

Five Origin Outdoor Cabinet speakers on the TV wall provide front channels. Origin spike speakers to the side and rear provide surround and back channels. Four Origin Acoustics 12″ buried subwoofers deliver deep bass throughout the garden. Three further Origin cabinet speakers extend music distribution to the wider garden when a music source is selected. The entire audio system is powered by a Trinnov 16-channel cinema processor and associated Trinnov amplifiers. In music mode, the Trinnov system calibrates to mono audio with subwoofer enhancement — the perfect audio experience from anywhere in the garden regardless of seating position.

Our Home Cinema Services

Control and Sources

The whole system is effortlessly controlled from a Crestron iPad app. A single button press causes the C Seed TV to rise, audio to switch on in the correct decoder format and the selected source to appear. Access to all house-wide services is available in the garden — Kaleidescape 4K HDR, Sky TV, internet radio, Spotify and Soundcloud — making this as flexible a system outdoors as it is indoors.

The Technology Behind the C Seed Installation

The C Seed 201-inch display — 5.11 metres when unfolded — is the centrepiece and the element that captures immediate attention. But the technology surrounding it is equally extraordinary. The Trinnov Altitude 16 processor manages a speaker array that covers the primary seating area and the entire garden simultaneously. Cinema mode and garden music mode are entirely separate configurations recalled from the Crestron iPad app without the user needing to understand the underlying complexity.

The Kaleidescape movie server provides uncompressed 4K source material — which matters outdoors where the C Seed’s display capability can fully resolve detail that compressed streaming cannot provide. The system is weatherproofed and monitored remotely. This is one of our most extraordinary installations anywhere in the portfolio.

Project Details

• Location: Cotswolds AONB
• Display: C Seed 201″ (5.11m) unfolding outdoor TV
• Audio: Trinnov Altitude 16 + Origin Acoustics — 5.1 cinema + 3-zone garden + 4x 12″ buried subwoofers
• Source: Kaleidescape movie server, Sky, streaming
• Control: Crestron iPad app

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