Effect of Design on Acoustic Performances in Classrooms: Case Study from Ankara

Abstract

Education is one of the most important factors for the development of societies. Efficient education can be possible with a qualified communication. Current spaces are huge factor that effects communications. No doubt that auditory comfort in spaces with completed acoustic development provides better communication. This study is prepared to propound the effects of the acoustic comfort conditions in classrooms which are the educational structure’s most important spaces and the material used. Within the scope of this study, two schools which are private and government high school in Ankara situated in Cankaya Municipality have been chosen to make measurements. Selected schools have been researched by the classes’ volume in terms of compliance with acoustic and in accordance with the inner surface of equipment. Similar volume classes chosen in both schools and they are measured with acoustic measuring devices, RT, EDT, C80, D50, STI, and RASTI which are significant for the intelligibility of speech has been taken into consideration for evaluation of the measurements taken in the determined classes. The impacts of furniture and surface materials on the acoustic comfort conditions are recovered in renewed or newly designed classrooms for revealing the most ideal level of speech intelligibility in classes.