2.18CREATING IMMERSIVE SOUNDSCAPES FOR URBAN OPEN SPACES

2.18CREATING IMMERSIVE SOUNDSCAPES FOR URBAN OPEN SPACES

With an aim to mitigate the clearly negative influence of noise on the standard of life, the quantitative approach to soundscape within the style of noise mitigation measures has been enclosed within the systematic planning and style of the designed atmosphere. Noise mitigation doesn't fully include the issue of urban open areas or the attainment of acoustic comfort as a major demand for the planning and style of urban open areas which may be planned only by together with the qualitative approach entailing the thought of soundscape content.

Noise mitigation strategies embody factors primarily associated with legal, economic or town management measures, like motor traffic speed reduction. On the opposite hand, it focuses on factors directly influenced by the urban acoustic style. Therefore, key urban and acoustic factors sit down with the final principle of soundscape improvement.

The analysed urban and acoustic factors influence the planning of the subsequent principles:

1) adding sound sources (engineered physics barriers), and

2) achieving acoustic distinctiveness (designed acoustic effect). sound sources area unit reduced to the kinds of positive sound sources in order to facilitate comparisons by individual sound sources

1) sounds of individuals (talk, laughter, steps, appropriate music, children's plays, bicycles),

2) sounds of nature (wind, rustling of leaves, water, waves, birds), and

3) sounds of designed sources (category added specifically for the wants of this study - musical sounds, art installations, signal sounds). The sound of architecturally designed sources could occur by mechanical, acoustic or electroacoustic means.