Acoustics2

For Achieve the acoustic comfort in a library of 300 students, I designed a building of two floors, the plant would be in square form, with low ceilings and made it of various materials.
 * Library for 300 students **



In the main floor, will have cubicles (inside of them will be the tables and chairs) and the bookcases. I will explain of what materials will be made the cubicle's walls and how will be placed the bookcases:

-The library will have various cubicles, that will be separated to each other using a special removable wall, this is in the case that the user want a biggest room, this wall will be made with lightweight steel framing (a special soundless material). With this cubicles, the groups of persons will have clarity of speech among them, and they will read and work in quiet.

- The bookcases will be in the center of the room, in strategic positions, for example the bookcases will be forming one principal passage, and this bifurcating in many divisions, in this way the sound will be travelling along the passage and will spread evenly throughout the room.



In the first floor, will have the computer lab, the coffee area and a bookstore. they are there because this noise will be separated of the work area of the students that are reading in the main floor. A rule inside of the computer lab will be that the computers will be used with headphones, in contrast with the sound background of the main floor that will be listen instrumental music.

In general terms, the building will have big windows for that the natural light come into the room, this windows will be seal around it, like the doors. The bathrooms will be in the corners in both floors, its walls will be made of special insulation inside of them, and will be coated with wood, so the noise of the toilets don't distract to the readers. The coated of the floor will be carpeting, this reduce the impact of the sound and the noise. Also, this library have a ceilings made of acoustically engineered gypsum board in form of cupola that make that the sound waves move into the room in a scatter way, with this material will absorb much of the noise.

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