Abstract
This study presents the indoor soundscape framework in detail by
describing the variables and factors that form an indoor soundscape study.
The main objective is to introduce a new indoor soundscaping framework and
systematically explain the variables that contribute to the overall
evaluation of an indoor soundscape. Hence, the dependencies of physical
and psychoacoustical factors of the sound environment and the spatial
factors of the built entity are statistically tested. The new indoor
soundscaping framework leads to an overarching evaluation perspective of
enclosed sound environments, combining objective room acoustics research
and noise control engineering with architectural analysis. Therefore, it
is hypothesised that case spaces with certain plan organisations,
volumetric relations, and spatial referencing lead to differentiated sound
pressure level (SPL) and loudness (N) values. SPL and N parametric
variances of the sound environments are discussed through the statistical
findings with respect to the architectural characteristics of each library
case space. The results show that the relation between crowd level
variances and sound environment parametric values is statistically
significant. It is also found that increasing the atrium height and atrium
void volume, the atrium’s presence as a common architectural element, and
its interpenetrating reference and domain containment results in unwanted
variances and acoustic formations, leading to high SPL and N values.
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Authors and Affiliations
Papatya Nur Dokmeci Yorukoglu