Architectural

Acoustics
Shruti S
 Architectural acoustics is the
science and engineering of
achieving a good sound within a
building.

Architectural acoustics can

be about achieving good
speech intelligibility in a theatre,
restaurant or railway
station, enhancing the
quality of music in a
concert hall or recording
studio, or suppressing noise
to make offices and homes
more productive and
pleasant places to work and
live in.
The application of Acoustics is
almost present in all aspects of
modern society with the most
obvious being the audio and
noise control industry.

The four elements of

Architectural Acoustics are
Building skin envelope,
Inter-space noise control,
Interior space acoustics,
Mechanical equipment noise.
Sound travels by compressions
and rarefactions making it a
mechanical wave which is non-
perpetual with respect to time
and resistance.

Sound is measured in
Logarithmic scale in units of
Decibels, measuring in terms of
pressure and frequency.
 Sound is reflected off the
surface as the same angle it
hits. The incident angle (direct)
and the reflected angle remains
the same, as sound acts as a
directional wave constituting in
super-positions, leading to
Reverb and Echoes.

Though sound bounces back

off, It travels through the
medium at the cost of energy
loss. The sound travels through
the medium to the other side of
the medium and that
transmitted energy is called
Transmitted Sound.
 Sound Transmission Class (or
STC) is an integer rating of how
well a building partition attenuates
airborne sound. A higher number
indicates more effective sound
insulation than a lower number.

Though sound bounces back

off, It travels through the
medium at the cost of energy
loss. The sound travels through
the medium to the other side of
the medium and that
transmitted energy is called
Transmitted Sound.
Identifying and rectifying design to conceal and treat the considered space with respect to acoustics and aesthetics is called
Architectural Acoustics
Thank you