L9Hearing Architecture.pptx.pdf

Hearing Architecture & Interior Spaces L9  Acoustic Intimacy Buildings do not react to our gaze, but they do return our sounds back to our ears. Hearing structures and articulates the experience and understanding of space  Can architecture be heard?...

Hearing Architecture & Interior Spaces L9  Acoustic Intimacy Buildings do not react to our gaze, but they do return our sounds back to our ears. Hearing structures and articulates the experience and understanding of space  Can architecture be heard? We hear the sounds it reflects Reflected sounds give us an impression of form and material. Differently shaped rooms and different materials reverberate differently. Vaults, and more especially domed vaults, are acoustically very effective. A dome is a strong reverberate source as it creates special sound centers.  Underground tunnels The characteristic sounds which tunnels produce are clearly heard in the splashing of the water and the echoes Architecture is certainly heard. Your ear receives the impact of both the length and the cylindrical form of the tunnel. The tunnel amplify the sound.  Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen has an acoustical effect very much like that of tunnels.  Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen The building was a palace converted into a beautiful museum with one statue in each barrel-vaulted room, The floors are of stone, the walls of stone, the ceilings of stone, even the residents are of stone. Therefore long echoes are reflected and heard  Early Christian church in Rome The old basilicas were not vaulted but they had the same hard character with their mosaic floors, naked walls and marble columns And they were so huge and empty that sound continued to reverberate in them back and forth between the massive walls. It therefore became necessary to employ a more rhythmic manner of speaking  St Mark Venice The Byzantine church of S. Mark’s, in Venice, is built over a Greek cross in plan and has five domes, one in the center and one over each of the four arms of the cross. This combination produces very unusual acoustical conditions.  Greek Amphitheater the theater at Epidaurus Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that the limestone material of the seats provide a filtering effect, suppressing low frequencies of voices, thus minimizing background crowd noise. Further, the rows of limestone seats reflect high-frequencies back towards the audience, enhancing the effect.