Building Science [ARC 3413]

Project 1 - Lighting & Acoustic Performance Evaluation and Design

Introduction

Lighting DESIGN is a primary element in architecture design and interior architecture. Solid volumes, enclosed spaces, colors and texture can only be appreciated fully when they are imaginatively lit. Successful buildings are those in which the lighting of the building itself and the lighting of the activities it contains together make up a unified design concept. This project is design to expose and introduce students to daylighting and lighting requirement in a suggested space.
In architecture and interior architecture, Acoustic DESIGN is an element which concerned with control of sound in spaces especially enclosed spaces. The requirement varies in relation to functional spaces whether it is a cinema, lecture theatre, restaurant and café or acoustical requirements for a meeting room. It is essential to preserve and enhance the desired sound and to eliminate noise and undesired sound. Prestigious buildings are those in which the acoustic of the building itself speak of the quality of the building itself. This project is design to expose and introduce students to acoustic design and acoustical requirements in a suggested space.

Tasks

This assignment is intended to be completed in a group of 5 students per group to evaluate their environment in terms of lighting and acoustics performances. Each group is required to choose a case study eg. gallery, visitor’s centre, showrooms, restaurants with ambiance and design and etc. Prepare a measured drawing with appropriate scale of your case study. Show all the necessary features which effect on the lighting and acoustics conditions of your case study.
They should carry out an appraisal of day-lighting artificial lighting, noise and sound condition(quality and quantity) in the selected case study. Their identification of adequacy of the quantity of light and sound/noise for the case study needed to be carried out objectively.

Product

Conclusion

Through this project, I’ve learnt to produce a complete documentation on analysis of space in relation to lighting requirement such as natural and artificial lighting and analysis of factors which effects the lighting design of a space. Besides that, I’ve also gained the knowledge on exploring and applying understanding of building physic and building materials on existing building projects. More over, I am able to evaluate and explore the improvisation by using current material and technologu in relevance to present construction industry and apply my basic understanding and analysis of lighting layout and arrangements by using methods and calculations such as lumen method and PSALI.