(1206.pdf) ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS ON INTERIOR DESIGN STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL SPACES (AUST - INTERIOR DESIGN DEPARTMENT)

摘要

Just mentioning “environment”, almost all, directly think weather temperature, while environment -aseffective element in design, involve everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our abilityto live. Natural environment is the thermal, atmospheric, luminous, and sonic variations of the exteriorworld. While artificial or interior environment - within the inner shelter - refers to a complex element inany interior spaces that meet the physical, physiological, and psychological requirements of theinhabitants. The interior environment consists, in addition to air-quality, mechanical, structural, lighting,psychological impact and the forgotten crucial element which is the acoustics! Acoustical environmentcovers all human existences and experiences. In any practically human surround, the need of anappropriate acoustical environment is a must to enhance the quality of function. Acousticalenvironment is a branch that provide the best sound surround conditions, where listening and talkingare the best experienced.In other hand, the teaching system is one important tool to learn. And teaching is based on talking andlistening. Poor listening environment or poor acoustical environment in the educational spaces affectnegatively on students' ability to attend and process; including learning passion, accommodateinformation, attention, memory and creation. Educational interior spaces for interior design studyshould apply all the needed rules to provide such environment in order to enhance the studentslearning experience. They do need a specific environment to create as design state.Educational Interior Spaces has many components' to reach quality design. Its start by the studiedzoning which is partly the architect mission then the exceptional task of the interior designer to providethe most satisfactory conditions for intelligible speech and any other sound materials, in addition toprevent any undesirable sound - noise - from the same space or from the adjacent spaces.Argues mention a lot of studies related to standards guideline for a best acoustical environment inschools, giving all the codes to be followed within the spaces in terms of materials specifications tocontrol the transmission of noise, and to keep the conditional sound level in classrooms. None ofstudies have covered the universities acoustical environment and specially the interior designdepartment where a great needs of sound levels to provide the best environment for creativity. Thusinvolves the zoning arrangement, the sound insulation between spaces and between space andmechanical systems, and the sound reinforcement of teachers for better functional and human comfortwithin lecture halls and studios.Research should reach the standards guidelines for the interior design of educational spacesclassified by type of interior spaces function; lecture hall, studios, workshop, and corridors, breakrooms and study rooms. It will include the relation between those types of spaces and the interiordesign process comprising the numbers of students expected which has a great impact on acousticalenvironment design.The research will follow the theoretical study to extract the best elements within the interior designelements and educational interior design spaces for design students. A survey study will be conductedfor reaching the weak points to searching of best solutions to reach best acoustical environment foreducational interior design.