Architectural acoustics

BUILDING DEFECTS PART 1 • Identify common building defects • Identify the source • Provide pictures, diagrams and sketches • Suggest remedial action • Show details that would have avoided the defect PART 2 Generate a scheme for planned maintenance and provide a building checklist to ensure all necessary maintenance is carried out on a regular basis. INTRODUCTION In this project we will be looking at many different kinds of building defects that would be commonly seen in the construction

The experiment was measured in terms of its pitch in order to find the best tone from the clarinet. The pitch and the sound of clarinet is really dependent on its reed. (3) There are several different sizes, or thicknesses, of reeds and the 3½ reed would be able to produce the most in-tune pitch. The sound stays as important matter in our life; it is the natural potential of most organisms and also the one that would used the most essentially. Sound is the awareness produced by stimulation of an

extravagant than ever before, they were engineered in a way that their acoustics are still being studied and replicated today. The exterior elements of the Renaissance era domes were considered to be impressive artistically, but the interior elements were unique to many as well. Looking at such buildings today, you can see the detailed work that had been put in for many years in order to create such a beautiful building. The acoustics inside the dome were carefully crafted and incorporated into the structure

research area for varied domains and applications. The domains include marine, aviation, transport, civil engineering etc. The applications could include numerous military and non military applications like fatigue failures in material, human comfort, acoustics stealth, marine mammal habitat assessment, condition based monitoring of machineries etc. In many engineering situations, machines are mounted on flexible structures such as the ships deck, aircraft fuselage, car or train chasis, building floors

absorption panels. This should be implemented by the architect during design (Passero & Zannin 2012). A retro fit of sound absorption panels is possible, however inconvenient. Varjo et al. (2015) carried out extensive acoustic testing in a controlled open-plan office environment. Use of acoustic absorption panels and audio masking techniques demonstrated a reduction in irrelevant noise by up to 36dBA at the 2K position on the frequency spectrum – which is the range of human speech. Focusing on intensive

Concert Hall Acoustics: Focus on Chan Shun Concert Hall The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts is an acoustic marvel. It was built in 1997 and was designed by Bing Thom Architects in conjunction with Artec Consultants and Theatre Projects and is situated at the University of British Columbia. The Centre has won many awards for it’s architectural design and acoustics. David Harrington, the Artistic Director/Violinist of 
Kronos Quartet says it very well: "The Chan Centre...has the rare distinction

Abstract This study was conducted to determine the combined effects of coloured lighting and ambient sound on mood. 48 psychology undergraduates, comprising of 38 females and ten males, took part in this study. This study is a 2x2 between subjects design. The coloured lightings used in this study are blue and yellow combined with the ambient sound of ‘city’ and ‘nature’ whereas mood was measured with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). We discovered that coloured lighting had no significant

First of all, a sound source radiates power and this results in a sound pressure, where the sound power is the ‘cause’ and sound pressure is the ‘effect’. But still, we always have to keep in mind that sound cannot travel through vacuum, simply, because sound propagates as a wave, which creates ‘compressions’ and ‘rarefactions’, as it interacts with the particles of the medium. If there is no medium, then there are no particles and of course, there is no interaction wave-particles interaction and

odour. Unlike music, Sound Art usually does not require silence for its proper presentation. Containers of silence called music rooms resonate with the aesthetics and affects on the body of a gallery space; white walls, floorboards to create optimum acoustics, and an ethereal sense of time and space. When presented in a gallery space, sound art’s

Answer 1: There are four dimensions of film sound that can be found in this clip from the 1960’s film Psycho, these are rhythm, fidelity, space, and time. When directing this scene Alfred Hitchcock had to make a lot of decisions regarding sound in it. Each of these choices has different implications and will affect the audience differently. Let's start with fidelity, I believe Hitchcock purposely implemented a lot of fidelity in this scene. I think he used common and familiar environmental sounds