Secret Garden Spring is a lifestyle complex that opened in March 2026 on Sunset Road, the corridor running from central Kuta up through Seminyak in Bali, Indonesia. Across three stories it gathers beauty retail and perfume-making workshops, a spa, fine dining, a coffee house, a cigar lounge, and a transit lounge for travellers between flights, and its owners expect it to draw more than 600,000 visitors a year.
The complex is the newest venture from Secret Garden Group, the Balinese company behind the Secret Garden beauty and fragrance brand and Secret Garden Village, the 35,000 sq m edu-tourism destination in the Bedugul highlands. On the top floor of the new building, above the retail and dining concourse, sits the Ambassador Lounge.
The Ambassador Lounge is the group’s events venue in south Bali, seating between 350 and 400 guests depending on configuration and available for public hire. Folding partitions can divide it into three smaller meeting rooms, but as a single open space it was conceived from the outset to work equally well for corporate meetings and conferences as for live performance. That dual purpose set the brief for the L-Acoustics system serving the full room: one installation with the clarity to carry speech and presentation, and the headroom to carry a band.
The room itself made that brief harder than it sounds. The Ambassador Lounge measures 27m long by 19m wide, but its ceiling is only 5m high, and structural beams run through the space. LED screens along the presentation wall had to stay unobstructed for both conference content and live shows. Very little of the volume that a designer would normally use to get a system above an audience was available.
Secret Garden Spring’s owners ran a competitive tender, inviting three audio contractors to present proposals. Jakarta-based L-Acoustics Parter, PT Gracia Auvindo, invited the client to its Jakarta office to hear a system rather than read about one, then went considerably further than a demonstration.
The team rebuilt the Ambassador Lounge inside L-Acoustics Soundvision from the venue’s own architectural drawings, beams included, and used the model to answer questions that usually go unanswered until a system is already on site. Alongside loudspeaker coverage, the model showed the owners the rigging mechanics for a five-metre ceiling and the electrical consumption the system would draw. For a client weighing three bids, that turned an audio proposal into something closer to a building document.
Hendra Halim, application director at PT Gracia Auvindo, said: “It’s a very powerful use of the software. We can simulate the room and show the client exactly how the installation will look, with the power consumption and everything else explained within it.”