Integrative Acoustics Fall 2020

This Fall, students in my Integrative Acoustics course developed proposals to improve room acoustics in learning environments. Students worked in teams to develop acoustic analysis and simulation workflows to validate design iterations. Deployable, reconfigurable and self supporting structures inspired the students in their designs which sought to address the need for break out spaces within open plan learning environments. Modular and component based systems with articulated geometries tuned to cancel specific frequencies suspended from the ceiling were proposed to reduce unwanted echo and excessive reverberance in large rooms. A reconfigurable partition composed of sandwiched acoustic foam and CNC perforated plywood louvers was designed to maintain visual connectivity while absorbing excess reverberance. The work was developed by students:

Jarrid Hrupp,

Rica Migrino

Anna Tran

Jenny Li

Faraz Shapurzadeh

Zainab Saif Ahmed

Zach Ward

Vikram Johal

Arpun Dhillon

Sam Baril

Ashley Hu

Caleb Derksen

Dan Howard

Evan Dodd