Prediction of the sound field into high-rise building facades due to its balcony ceiling form

Abstract: Semarang City is a city located in Central Java and also a metropolitan city in Indonesia, in the fifth place (Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and Semarang City) in which there are several historical areas, one of which is the Tugu Muda area (Indriyatni, 2013). This area is often visited by local, national and international communities. The Tugu Muda area is one of the historic areas in Semarang with the presence of a monument to the struggle of the Semarang youth (Sukawi, 2009). With the passage of time, the Tugu Muda area, the Semarang city government built a high rise building with a modern concept, which is currently named the Pandanara Building, with the existence of this building visually reducing the image and value of the area, namely as a historic area. From this phenomenon, further research is needed to determine the effect of the building of the Pandanaran Building on the character of the Tugu Muda area of Semarang, which is essentially a historic area. The method used is a qualitative method by studying the literature on the theory of building facades and visual characters, which is then carried out in the analysis stages to achieve the research objectives.Abstrak: Kota semarang merupakan sebuah kota yang terletak di jawa tengah dan juga menjadi kota metropolitan di indonesi, dengan urutan ke lima (Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung dan Kota Semarang) yang di dalam nya terdapat beberapa kawasan bersejarah, salah satunya yaitu kawasan tugu muda (Indriyatni, 2013). Kawasan ini sering di kunjungi oleh masyarakat lokal, Nasional maupun Internasional. Kawasan Tugu Muda ini merupakan salah satu kawasan bersejarah di semarang dengan di tengarai dengan di adanya tugu perjuangan pemuda semarang (Sukawi, 2009). Dengan seiring berjalannya waktu Kawasan Tugu Muda pemerintah kota semarang mendirikan bangunan high hrise building dengan konsep modern, yang saat ini diberi nama Gedung Pandanara, dengan adanya bangunan tersebut secara visual mengurangi citra dan nilai dari Kawasan yaitu sebagai Kawasan bersejarah. Dari fenomena tersebut perlunya penelitian lebih jauh untuk mengetahui pengaruh adanya bangunan Gedung pandanaran tersebut terhadap karakter Kawasan Tugu Muda Semarang yang hakikinya kawasan ini merukan kawasan bersejarah. Metode yang di gunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan mempelajari literature mengenai teori mengenai fasade bangunan dan karakter visual, yang kemudian dilakukan tahapan analisa guna mencapai tujuan penelitian.

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Fire safety engineering applied to high-rise building facades

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/20164604002 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 04002 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Samuele Sassi ◽

Paolo Setti ◽

Giuseppe Amaro ◽

Lamberto Mazziotti ◽

Giuseppe Paduano ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fire Safety ◽

Safety Engineering ◽

High Rise ◽

Fire Safety Engineering ◽

High Rise Building ◽

Building Facades

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Measurements and prediction of road traffic noise along high-rise building façades in Athens

Noise Mapping ◽

10.1515/noise-2020-0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexandra Sotiropoulou ◽

Ioannis Karagiannis ◽

Emmanouil Vougioukas ◽

Athanassios Ballis ◽

Aspasia Bouki

Keyword(s):

Vertical Distribution ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Traffic Noise ◽

Well Being ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Design Stage ◽

Road Traffic Noise ◽

High Rise ◽

High Rise Building ◽

Building Facades

AbstractConstant exposure to traffic noise pollution can have significant impact on human health and well being. Occupants of high-rise buildings along noisy traffic arteries are severely affected. In an attempt to contribute to noise protection design of prospective high-rise buildings, traffic noise measurements and prediction using the CRTN (calculation of road traffic noise) model, were made along the façade of a high-rise building in central Athens. The aim was to test the accuracy of this model in predicting the vertical distribution (mapping) of traffic noise along such building façades, under the local urban characteristics of the Mediterranean capital. The predicted and measured noise levels were found to be highly coherent with each other, and their vertical distribution pattern, by and large, confirmed findings from earlier studies. Nevertheless, the predicted values had a tendency of underestimation, with a mean difference −2.2 dB(A) with reference to measured values. It is considered that this underestimation is associated mainly with a newly proposed feature of urban morphology, namely (local) geo-morphology. By and large, it can be inferred that the CRTN model is a useful tool, suitable for the prediction of traffic noise along high-rise building façades during their planning and design stage. The results represent a further step towards more general application of this model, as well as a contribution to the use of this model considering a wider number of urban features.

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