Title
Acoustic considerations of three churches constructed during the last decade in Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, IIAV
Abstract
In this paper, the design process of the acoustics of three churches built in Peru during the last decade is presented. The acoustic design of the first church was done after it was built, while for the last two, the acoustics was considered in the early stage of the general design process. In this work, it is shown how the problems of unfavorable geometries were solved. During the design process, the room parameters were calculated using a computer model, time domain results were always taken into account; at the end, auralization was used as a complement to make final decisions. Since two of the projects were catholic churches, the right reverberation time guarantee the balance between the quality of sacred music and word intelligibility. When possible, measurements were performed once the basic structures of the churches were finished in order to verify the initial model, for the last two cases further measurements were performed when the churches were completely finished. In each church, the sound reinforcement system was also taken into account as part of design process.
Start page
4323
End page
4330
Volume
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería civil Acústica Ingeniería arquitectónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85058701761
ISBN of the container
978-151086845-8
Conference
25th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2018, ICSV 2018: Hiroshima Calling
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