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Local workforceLow densityLow fam/hh sizeMedium income

$40-45K/year

September 9, 20121:17 pm 13 51

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September 11, 20128:19 am 10 44

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NOISE

SHADOW

DOPPLER

EFFECT

HIGHER

FREQUENCY

HIGHER

FREQUENCY

HIGHER

FREQUENCY

LOWER

FREQUENCY

LOWER

FREQUENCY

DIFFRACTION

REFLECTION

Frequency22 kHz 20 Hz

Frequency20 Hz 22 kHz

TRANSONDENT ARCHITECTURE

TIME

FREQUENCY

PARAMETRIC MODEL OF CERAMIC TRANSONDENT TILE

RECEIVER-ORIENTED PARADIGM

SIGNAL-ORIENTED PARADIGM

SONOGRAPH OF 25-HOLE TILES SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO

PROXIMITY OF AMBIENT SOUNDS TO EA CH FACE DETERMINES NUMBER AND SIZE OF HOLES

AREA MAP OF AMBIENT SOUNDS

SITE PLAN

ELEVATION OF AMBIENT SOUNDS

ADJACENCY OF PARTICULAR SOUNDS TO PROGRAMMATIC NEED DETERMINES ORIENTATION OF HOLES

LOW FREQUENCY NOISE FROM TRUCKS STOPPING

KIOSK-SIZE READING ROOM: READ ALOUD AMIDST HIGH LEVELS OF AMBIENT SOUND

HIGH FREQUENCY NOISE FROM DISTANT FREEWAY

BLOCKS MORE MIDFREQUENCY NOISE

BLOCKS MORE LOWFREQUENCY NOISE

VARIABLES: LENGTH, WIDTH, HEIGHT, GRID COUNT, NUMBER OF HOLES, HOLE SIZE, HOLE ORIENTATION 1 HOLE 2 HOLES 7 HOLES 11 HOLES 25 HOLES

Noise functions as a byproduct of architecture and urbanism within a larger framework of sound as(spatial) territory, both public and private. Some noises are pollution while otherssignalsprovide

critical data about our surroundings, suggesting environmental sound control should focus on filteringsignals to produce a highly tuned transondent soundscape of clarified signals.

Noise abatement, which can be defined as a set of strategies toreduce noise pollution, was initiated in 1907 by a law prohibiting boatchatter by horn-blowing in New York Citys harbors. The excessivehorn-blowing was disturbing the sleep of the citys hospital patients,thereby making it a public health concern. This model of legislatingagainst the source of a disturbing noise I have designated assource-oriented planning. This paradigm had to be expanded assound insulation technology developed rapidly during the twentiethcentury, forcing legislation to require the use of such technology torequire its use in shielding the person hearing excess noise. This newparadigm I have designated as receiver-oriented contains thesource-oriented model firmly rooted within it. By challenging thedominant receiver-oriented paradigm, signal-oriented planning and

transondent architecture diffuse the soundscapes of denselypopulated areas and traffic corridors, mitigating negative effects ofexcess noise while keeping ambient noise nominal.

THICK TILEnoise and reducednoise are a handfulof thick bandwidths

THIN TILEnoise and reduced noise

are many thin bandwidths,

pulse of signal is retained

REPETITIVE TASKS,MANUAL LABOR

DETAILED TASKS,MENTAL FOCUS

SIGNAL : NOISE SIGNAL : NOISE SIGNAL : NOISE

CREATIVE TASKS,EXPLORATION

NO TILEnoise occupiesentire spectrum

of bandwidths

Lines are intended to show directional information about sound perception on-site. Lin es are not intended to beisobel (equal-loudness) curves, as a field recorder was used to gather information, not a decibel meter.

Analysis of the nearbypedestrian bridge shows

how diffusion of sound canseparate low and high

frequency componentsfrom the earprint of the

acoustic spectrum