| id |
acadia09_174 |
| authors |
Peters, Brady |
| year |
2009 |
| title |
Parametric Acoustic Surfaces |
| source |
ACADIA 09: reForm( ) - Building a Better Tomorrow [Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-9842705-0-7] Chicago (Illinois) 22-25 October, 2009), pp. 174-181 |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2009.174
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| summary |
Acoustics are important performance criteria for architecture; however, architects rarely consider them, except, perhaps, when designing concert halls. Architectural spaces can be said to perform well or poorly in terms of their acoustic qualities. By altering the geometry or material characteristics of the surfaces within a room in specific ways, the acoustics can be controlled. Once the geometric rules governing these acoustic alterations are understood, these rules can be encoded into a CAD system through parametric modeling or the use of computer programming. The architectural designer can then generate acoustically regulating surfaces according to desired performance criteria. In this way, acoustic engineering links to architectural design, and allows architectural design to become acoustically performance-driven. This paper considers three primary types of acoustic surfaces: absorbers, resonators, and diffusers. complex surfaces that combine these three performance characteristics in different ways are proposed. |
| keywords |
Acoustic design, geometry, materiality, scripting |
| series |
ACADIA |
| type |
Normal paper |
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