Wolf-Gordon has launched Gather Acoustical, a lightweight, semi-rigid panel system that achieves between a 0.25 and 0.9 noise reduction coefficient.
Gather Acoustical panels provide color-saturated pattern and texture in a 100 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate construction while helping to reduce noise.
Formatted as ¼-inch thick, 4-foot x 10-foot semi-rigid panels, Gather is available as a kit of parts for designers to customize. Twelve colorways can be used alone as solid color panels or digitally printed, engraved, precision cut, layered, folded and woven into twenty different dimensional constructions.
The patterns, enhanced by different fabrication techniques, were largely inspired by architectural elements and materials such as facades, claddings, sunscreens, space frames, perforated metal, tile, roofing and textiles. Gather can be applied directly to a wall or layered and mounted with Z-clip or standoff hardware available from Wolf-Gordon. It can also help subdivide spaces by being suspended or applied to gravity-bound substrates. Gather can wrap a room or create cozy nooks by mitering the edges.
Gather is constructed from a PET formulation in 100 percent recycled polyester (60 percent post-consumer and 40 percent pre-consumer) and has NRC values ranging from 0.25 to 0.9 (depending on the number of layers, mounting method and dimensional options).
Gather is Red List-free, OekoTex Standard 100 Confidence in Textiles, listed on DECLARE and Mindful Materials, and meets Cal 01250 for low emissions. Gather also helps achieve one point for LEED EQ 10.1 Acoustic Performance and up to two points for WELL Sound, depending on the construction and surface area covered in a space. Gather also meets the Global Recycling Standard. It is Class A rated for ASTM E84, both adhered and unadhered fire tests, and has a lightfastness value of 4.5 @ 40 hrs.