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Indoor Soundscapes of the Future: Listening to Smart Houses
(wiley, 2023) Alkan, A.L.; Yörükoğlu, P.N.D.; Kitapci, K.; 214925; İç Mimarlık
The acoustic environment of smart houses impacts the overall quality of life and wellbeing of occupants. A well-designed acoustic environment can promote relaxation, while excessive noise or distractions can negatively impact wellbeing. It is crucial to consider sound’s role in smart house design. Smart houses have built-in virtual assistants that respond to voice commands, perform various tasks, and verbally respond to such commands. This machine-to-human-to-machine verbal interaction requires high speech intelligibility (i.e., low reverberation time and high signal-to-noise ratio) in smart houses, which is not required for traditional homes. The open floor plan and multi-purpose rooms in smart houses can create challenges for sound management. This can be addressed by creating separate zones for different activities or using room dividers that help to direct and absorb sound. The design of smart houses includes the placement of speakers and other audio devices to optimize sound quality and distribution. Speakers are installed in the ceiling or walls to create a more immersive and balanced listening experience. The placement of microphones and other sensors should also be optimized for smart houses. Microphones should be placed where sound is most likely heard or where it best captures voice commands. Integrating multiple audio sources and devices creates challenges in managing and organizing sound in a smart house. Designers should consider configuring smart devices and ensuring that different devices are compatible and functioning properly. © 2024 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Spatial design outcomes of indoor soundscaping course as part of interior architecture education
(The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, Inc., 2022) Yörükoğlu, P.N.D.; 214925; İç Mimarlık
Indoor soundscaping is a multi-disciplinary field that integrates, sound, user experience, and architecture. At its core, it has the potential to redefine any enclosed acoustic environment. Listening to spaces should be an active act of an interior architect; an awareness that should be gained during the early years of interior architecture undergraduate education. The elective course with the same name, 'Listening to Spaces' has been offered to interior architecture students since 2015 at Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey under the Department of Interior Architecture, with the aim of implementing an important additional topic specific course to the present education curriculum of the Department as the course combines architectural, spatial and functional analysis methods from an acoustical perspective, in order to raise awareness on conscious listening of spaces with different functions. The course is conducted through interactive learning bases and the orientation is more research-based than teaching-based, although basic acoustical and soundscape theoretical knowledge is given. Students are expected to accomplish 6 tasks progressively following the cognitive process dimensions parallel to Bloom's taxonomy. The outcomes of the tasks and the final spatial design proposals has been evaluated and discussed as part of this study to highlight the importance of topic specific course integration to architectural design education. © 2022 Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering. All rights reserved.
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Where Does Indoor Soundscaping Stand in Architectural Practice? Opinions of the Built Environment Experts
(European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023) Osma, U.B.E.; Yörükoğlu, P.N.D.; İç Mimarlık
Noise regulations and acoustics standards have been increasingly in operation to manage noise exposures in built environment fields. On the other hand, with its positive attitude towards sounds and addressing sounds as a resource, the rather recent field of soundscaping has not been much considered by experts in the built environment. Accordingly, this study aims to address this gap and collect opinions and feedback from built environment experts on the role of indoor soundscaping during architectural practice. Interviews with field experts such as architects and interior architects are carried out through semi-structured questionnaires to gather data on; (1) noise, acoustics, and soundscape-related considerations and applications, (2) awareness of noise, acoustics, and indoor soundscape terminology, (3) integration of indoor soundscaping principles in architectural design and application. Within the scope of this study, the data gathered from the field experts are used to drive evaluations on awareness, expectation, and importance regarding the role of indoor soundscaping during architectural practice and more specifically, sound in spatial design. As a result, this study is expected to be an initial step to increase awareness regarding the importance of including indoor soundscaping during architectural design and application by revealing the overlooked points obtained from field experts. © 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.