Abstract: Lectures hall and classroom in Universities are occupied by students and advisors or Instructors for lectures but the acoustic design for these buildings are neglected and student get distracted or cannot clearly hear and pay attention to the lecturers. Acoustic design of these spaces go a long way to affect both the Instructors and students in terms of audibility, communication between the students and instructors or Advisors, comfortability, performance of students in class discussion and in general and so on. From this research, the integration of Acoustic comfort will be achieved through the Architectural design rather than active means and the discussion of both means of achieving Acoustic comfort or Architectural Acoustics is reviewed in the literature review. This research will study possible noise sources and measures or technologies that can be integrated into the architectural design of a lecture hall or classroom to aid acoustic comfort. Some of this noise sources may include HVAC, background noise from outside the lecture space, low sound insulation building materials and so on. The architectural acoustics of a lecture hall or classroom is very important for students to acquire the most knowledge they can and this research will use a case study to analysis the acoustic comfort of the lecture space and propose a suitable design to achieve acoustic comfort within the lecture hall. A software will also be used to estimate the noise level within the selected Case Study to determine the level of noise pollution which will made proposing a suitable design and material selection more feasible. Also this research will discuss the advantages or benefits of acoustics comfort in a lecture hall or classroom.
Keywords: Architectural Acoustics, HVAC, Sound Insulation, Acoustic Comfort, Acoustics.
Title: Achieving Acoustic Comfort in the Architectural Design of a Lecture Hall
Author: Adekalu Oluwasayo Benjamin, Halil Zafer Alibaba
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
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