BUILDING SCIENCE

PROJECT 1 : Lighting and Acoustic Performace Evaluation 

INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT 1

Lighting design is a primary element in architecture design and interior architecture but acoustic design is an element which concerned with control of sound in spaces especially encloses spaces. This project is to introduce students the daylight and acoustic design in selected space.

Group of 6/7 students per group are formed to evaluate their environment in terms of lighting and acoustics performances. Each group is required to choose a case study from the list of buildings provided. We need to carry out an appraisal of day-lighting artificial lighting, noise and sound condition(quality and quantity) in the selected case study.

Bscience report ff from Anthony Chew

REFLECTION

This project allows us to have a very good understanding on lighting and acoustic analysis, which also helps in our design studio project, the community library, an urban infill project. An urban infill project requries a lot of thoughts on lighting and acoustic analysis because of insuffient sunlight and also the busy road affecting the acoustic in the building plus it is a community library, there fore is very challenging and this module definitely helps in that. 

PROJECT 2 : Lighting and Acoustic Integration

Each student is required to incorporate one A2 board for Lighting Integrated Design and one A2 board for Acoustics Integrated Design and to be submitted in a clear folder. we required to identify spaces which require artificial lighting and day-lighting. As for the acoustic, we required to identify spaces to integrate our external noises and internal noises. Integration must be solution based and we were advised to incorporate visuals, diagrams and renderings using any environmental design analysis tools in our presentation board. 

Lighting report 

Bscience report from Jason Juen

Acoustic report 

Bscience report acoustic from Jason Juen

REFLECTION

This intergration project hugely enhance my design as I have to consider the lighting and acoustic, which are one of the most important components in my design. However, I have learned a lot about acoustic and lighting where it come to the point where a building designed to be fully functional, with the support and addition of lighting and acoustic analysis.