Conference_programme: 20: Soundscapes
Lecture: AN ATTEMPT TO DESIGN FOR AN URBAN AREA THROUGH ITS SOUNDSCAPE
Author(s): Ozcevik Bilen Asli, Kandemir Ozlem
Summary:
Soundscape has been defined as the “acoustic environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by a person or people, in context” in the ISO 12913. Changing perception priorities (by preferring audial perception to visual) can lead to new perspectives to understand, analyse and design for an urban area and form new ways of thinking and making new connections for its architecture. \nThis paper is a study to see and reveal the design possibilities of soundscape concept and to investigate new approaches to the architectural design processes and its references. In 2017 during the fall semester in the Department of Architecture at Anadolu University, the Architectural Design Studio III course experimented with this approach and processed in the studio. Binaural sound recordings (15 minutes) taken in situ and the actual sound environment of four urban areas having different soundscapes, were given as the sole and primary design data to a group of twenty students. It was expected that the students create their urban setting which they only heard, then define their main design problems. In this process two gradual surveys were applied to the students. Primarily in general, they tried to understand the recording area by defining the sound sources and to evaluate the sound environments via a semantic differential test including 30 pairs of adjectives. Secondarily, they asked to list all soundmarks of the recordings and to define the soundmarks that they referenced while defining their design problems. \nThe information obtained from this study give some clues that the soundmarks of a soundscape solely comprise the general information guiding design for an urban area. It is also emphasized the importance of listening the environment attentively while designing an architectural environment, by this studio experience.
Corresponding author
Name: Dr Asli Ozcevik Bilen
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Country: Turkey
