Building Utilities 3 - Acoustics & Lighting Systems

SUBJECT BACKGROUND

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS AND LIGHTING are an exact science and practical art. The architect who has a working knowledge of these subjects can plan adequately for the acoustics and lighting of the buildings he designs. It is the purpose of this subject to present the working principles of this science and art in a simple, useful, and convenient form. Architectural designing based on these principles will assure the construction of rooms and buildings which are free from disturbing glare noises and which provide the optimum conditions for reading, producing and listening to either speech or music. Functional acoustical and lighting design demands scientific, aesthetic, and practical planning.

 This course is intended as a practical guide to good acoustical and lighting design in architecture. This subject is composed of two sections. The first section discusses about "Acoustics" and is further divided into two parts. The general principles and procedures on which all acoustical designing should be based considered in chapters 1 to 10 specific applications of these principles and procedures are described in chapter 11 these applications include the design of auditoriums, theatres, school buildings, commercial and public buildings, homes, apartments and hotels, churches, radio and television, sound-recording studios. The second section discussed "LIGHTING" and is also further divided into two parts The general principles and procedures light sources on which all the lighting designing should be based are considered in chapters 12 to 15. Specific applications of these principles and procedures are described in chapter 16. These applications include the lighting applications on Residential occupancies, Institutional and Educational buildings, Commercial Interiors, Industrial lighting, and other Design Topics such as Automatic energy control, Emergency lighting. Building retrofit, Road lighting and Street lighting. A short discussion follows on Disco-lighting.

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