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Architectural Acoustics

Architectural acoustics involves achieving good sound quality in buildings. It can involve enhancing speech intelligibility, music quality, or suppressing noise. Building acoustics aims to minimize noise transmission between spaces and control sound characteristics within spaces. It is an important consideration in building design and construction as it impacts health, communication, and productivity. Building acoustics can be influenced by the geometry, volume, and sound absorption characteristics of surfaces and materials used.

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Architectural Acoustics

Architectural acoustics involves achieving good sound quality in buildings. It can involve enhancing speech intelligibility, music quality, or suppressing noise. Building acoustics aims to minimize noise transmission between spaces and control sound characteristics within spaces. It is an important consideration in building design and construction as it impacts health, communication, and productivity. Building acoustics can be influenced by the geometry, volume, and sound absorption characteristics of surfaces and materials used.

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Architectural acoustics 

(also known as building acoustics) is the science and engineering of


achieving a good sound within a building and is a branch of acoustical engineering. Architectural
acoustics can be about achieving good speech intelligibility in a theatre, restaurant or railway
station, enhancing the quality of music in a concert hall or recording studio, or suppressing
noise to make offices and homes more productive and pleasant places to work and live in.

Building acoustics is the science of controlling noise in buildings. This includes the minimisation


of noise transmission from one space to another and the control of the characteristics
of sound within spaces themselves.

Building acoustics are an important consideration in the design, operation and construction of


most buildings, and can have a significant impact on health and wellbeing, communication
and productivity. They can be particularly significant in spaces such as concert halls, recording
studios, lecture theatres, and so on, where the quality of sound and its intelligibility are very
important.

Building acoustics can be influenced by:

 The geometry and volume of a space.


 The sound absorption, transmission and reflection characteristics of surfaces enclosing
the space and within the space.
 The sound absorption, transmission and reflection characteristics
of materials separating spaces.
 The generation of sound inside or outside the space.
 Airborne sound transmission.
 Impact noise.

Architectural acoustics, Relationship between sounds produced in a space and its listeners, of


particular concern in the design of concert halls and auditoriums. Good acoustic design takes
into account such issues as reverberation time; sound absorption of the finish materials;
echoes; acoustic shadows; sound intimacy, texture, and blend; and external noise. Architectural
modifications (e.g., orchestral shells, canopies, and undulating or angled ceilings and walls) may
act as focusing elements to improve sound quality.

OBJECTIVES:

 Influence the environmental comfort of a space, our behaviour and even our
productivity.
 To provide equal sound absorption in a room’s surface.
 To control noise transmissions and ensure space functionality.
 Sound proofing (less noise)
 Acoustical treatment (better sound)
 To control sound diffusion
 To identify which element of a building’s construction contributes to acoustical
characteristics.
Every element of a building’s construction contributes to its acoustical
characteristics. It’s more than just walls and ceilings: its shapes, surfaces,
furniture, light fixtures, mechanical systems and materials used in construction all
have an impact on a building’s acoustics. When the acoustical properties of
materials are not considered during the specification process, the result is too
often a poor acoustical environment. The conversation around healthier buildings
often focuses on light and air quality, but the noise levels also significantly impact
health and wellbeing. Increasingly, though, many industry standards, guidelines
and building rating systems now have acoustic criteria sections, elevating the
importance of acoustics in building occupant wellbeing.
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids,
and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who
works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics
technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in
almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise
control industries.
Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world and speech is one of
the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture. Accordingly, the science
of acoustics spreads across many facets of human society—music, medicine, architecture,
industrial production, warfare and more. Likewise, animal species such as songbirds and frogs
use sound and hearing as a key element of mating rituals or marking territories. Art, craft,
science and technology have provoked one another to advance the whole, as in many other
fields of knowledge.

Objectives:
 To promote creation of environments, both indoors and outdoors.
 To provide comfort and a sound quality by having noise control.
 To positively affect the human health.
 To abate the negative effects of sound or noise.

To help with the discipline for sustainable development. (A sustainable development also
involves technology with a minimum of energy and material consumption, e.g. primarily
lightweight constructions of recyclable material in buildings, machines and vehicles. It is a
complicating factor in achieving the goal of a sustainable development that increased weight is
the most straightforward method to obtain better sound insulation in buildings and less noise
from machinery. It is a real challenge for skilled engineers to fulfill these requirements for a
sustainable development in terms of noise.

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