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Analysis Tools for Soundscape - Conscious Urban Landscape Design

Soundscape is inevitably connected to the design of the built environment. Sonotope can be considered an important contextual element in design processes. Architects design the built environment, thus influencing the soundscape issue. One could presume that the architects are capable of designing soundscapes. However, they rarely do so on purpose. The subject becomes even more relevant while designing the urban landscape regarding its social and epistemological role. Soundscape could either enrich its meaning and spatial experience or degrade them. It is argued that soundscape design can be used as a method of defining space. During the research on urban landscape design, while studying the phenomenological approach, the problem of understanding the correlation between visual and acoustic space arose. Since the majority of the work was done in the visual domain, it was rather difficult to communicate and present the conceived. The need therefore emerges for a holistic approach, which would consider the intended character of the spatial experience. Furthermore, a few specific urban landscape sites were chosen through the recognised soundscape-conscious approach. The apparent and possible interdependencies of visual and acoustic space were analysed. The distinction between material and nonmaterial spatial elements is suggested for both visual and acoustic environments. Current methods of representing the nonmaterial spatial elements proved to be insufficient for the understanding of its complexity. The problem recognised in the academic environment is also relevant for the professional one. It is already claimed that considering only technical aspects, such as SPL measurements, during the urban landscape design process is insufficient for achieving satisfactory results. Implementation of questionnaires, the sound-walk method and soundscape simulators has been widely discussed. Interdisciplinarity still brings about the need to develop adequate analysis tools for defining key elements and showing their correlations in order to achieve the intended spatial sensory experience.

soundscape ; sonotope ; soundscape design ; spatial sensory experience

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