Sonic relations as a design tool

Sonic relations as a design tool

Wróbel, Aleksandra (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor)
van Deudekom, A.B.J. (mentor)
Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism

2021-07-01

Recent times are characterised by the domination of vision; as a result, the relation with the environment is very often superficial and based on a distance - very little attention is paid to acoustic relations which equally to visual means shape our experience of space. If sounds are understood as a set of acoustic relations resulting from specific urban plan, topography, materiality and human activities, then each fragment of a city is characterised by different acoustic conditions. Therefore, there is a need to use this potential as a tool to understand the meaning which sonic relations give to space and use them as a tool for urban and architectural design. The acoustic studies took place in the city centre of Nijmegen. The design project consists of two phases: research on urban scale aimed to understand sonic relations in the city applying varied methodology: interviews with blind and visually impaired, developing sound notational language, conducting sound studies and identifying acoustic typologies found in space. The second approach presents an application of that knowledge into an architectural design on the example of the urban block with Molenpoort shopping mall to test if the acoustic design can save the space from being demolished.

Sound perception
Sound Studies
Acoustic Typologies
Sonic relations
Sound Notational Language
Public space
Urban design

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Student theses

master thesis

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