IE University marks the academic training of the future with Avanzia's AV integration

Engineering Avanzia has shown, in the technical tour carried out for Digital AV, the ambitious AV integration project that has been executed in IE University, the first vertical university in Europe, in which entrepreneurship and technology flow in all its spaces.

The first university campus in height, IE University It is located in a skyscraper – the IE Tower– of 36 plants; smaller than its 'neighbors'’ of the Cuatro Torres Business Area financial and business complex (CTBA) that make up the skyline of Madrid, on the Paseo de la Castellana.

Designed as a technological and sustainable space, the IE Tower that houses this Vertical Campus It is divided into three areas: hub, Singular Pods E IEU Community, which in turn combine to offer a differential academic experience.

This innovative installation, of 181 M. high, distributed in 36 plants in a total area of 50.000 m2, the first of its kind in Europe, It currently hosts a 4.000 Students (although it can reach up to 6.000) of 140 Countries.

Operational since last September, This private Spanish university, whose management company is the Instituto de Empresa, It has a varied and versatile set of spaces, optimized for various individual and joint functionalities, that can operate in physical format, Hybrid and virtual.

Training and entrepreneurship

With innovation, Training and entrepreneurship as you teach, IE University offers its students seventy classrooms, equipped with high-end technology for Hybrid Training (Face-to-face and remote), In addition to multipurpose rooms that can be divided into two or three classrooms; of work and study and debate, as well as a large auditorium, Sports spaces and green areas.

A complex and ambitious consulting and AV technology integration project of four years of development that has been carried out by the engineering Avanzia, that has been responsible for the integration of classrooms, the auditorium, The two entrances to the building, Council Room, meetings, Etc; In addition to performing the technological maintenance of the installed equipment, What Digital AV has toured during the technical visit.

He points this out. Enrique Martinez Allue, AV-senior consultant / Avanzia project manager: “The design and integration of this facility has been a great challenge for the company, valuing its enormous technical capacity and human resources to execute a project of this magnitude in a record time of three months”.

Tickets to the IE Tower (one by Castellana and another by Monforte de Lemos) They already advance how the design, Digital learning and technology combine perfectly and show a differential academic environment.

Both Lobbies have each of a videowall Led 4K signature Samsung, from 9,60×2,16 metre, with pixel pitch of 2,5 mm and 1.200 Luminosity nits, in which students and visitors are welcomed, in addition to displaying information of interest and events, Brand image and more.

Immersive and 'liquid learning'’

With a flexible technological configuration, The equipment and technological integration of the spaces respond to the model of 'liquid learning’ of the institution.

As Enrique Martínez assures, “the final result of the project has been a resounding success for Avanzia and a great step in the technological and AV vanguard for IE University. We live in a 'liquid' world’ And academic education and technology must also be 'liquid'”.

Each of the seventy classrooms has two 98 monitors″ of the Samsung firm installed with brackets of Vogel's, with a total of 140 Equipment, and another of 65″ for the teacher, with wireless and virtual control system. A camera Panasonic PTZ 4K allows class tracking in hybrid format for remote students.

The quality of audio is optimal thanks to the installation of the pendant-mount speaker system Bose FreeSpace FS2P and the array of microphones with technology Beamtrackin of Biamp.

The teacher also has a lectern designed by Avanzia, with a 24 touch screen″ of Wacom, in which monitors are replicated, all controlled and managed with the technology of Crestron.

The equipment of the seventy classrooms consists of a monitor of 55″ from Samsung, with wireless presentation systems and virtual control.

For the eight multipurpose classrooms has opted for the installation of two touch monitors of 85″ and six out of 55″ for workgroups, also from the Korean firm, Each one ambient microphones and virtual control.

In this innovative and technological academic environment, The so-called Classroom of the future, A modern space, Open and dynamic (non-hybrid) so that students can make presentations, debate,...

For this they have a Led screen with 4K resolution, from 5,88×1,62M, with pixel pitch of 1,5 Mm, from Samsung, Same as the one that has also been installed in the board room or meetings of the building, located on the floor 26.

Dynamic spaces

Avanzia has also made the AV integration of the council and committee rooms, equipped with a Led screen of the aforementioned firm, with pixel pitch of 1,5 mm and a size of 5.88×1,62 M; with videoconferencing system, Sound and environmental and wireless microphone equipment and virtual control.

The five offices and twenty-five meeting rooms have a monitor of 55″, with unified communications systems, Wireless presentation and virtual control.

the Signage system of the building has also been made by Avanzia, as well as the integration of the digital signage installed in the twenty-two elevator lobbies of the floors, composed of 43 monitors″ and content management software from Admires.

Multipurpose auditorium

All this innovative technological and integration project has as a reference the auditorium of IE University, where the official inauguration took place with the presence of King Felipe VI, together with political and business authorities.

Modern design and capacity for six hundred people, The auditorium has on its stage with a large Led screen with 4K resolution (3.840×2.160Q), with dimensions of 9.60×5,40M.

The screen is prepared for videoconferencing with the main platforms on the market (Teams, zoom), with Barco's S3-4K processing. For this, a 4K robotic camera and three Panasonic PTZ have been arranged.

The sound system consists of two line arrays of JBL Professional, with subwoofers on stage and Delay for the rear stand, that offers 20.000 W. All microphones are made in Dante network, with sound control Allen & Heath.

The dynamic lighting of the auditorium, that can be customized depending on the event, is controlled from a HedgeHog 4E table of Etc.

From the control room of the auditorium the entire system is controlled with Crestron, and signal output is provided for media, as well as the fiber connection with other spaces of the building.

The auditorium lobby, which is used as a multipurpose space for events and see what happens in it, has two screens Led 4K in vertical format Samsung, as PivotBoxes, with pixel pitch 2.0 and a luminosity of 1.000 Nits.

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