Acoustic Lab

Acoustics being a very special branch of science in which the behaviour of sound is studied. Hence different concepts and lot of technicalities are involved which makes it difficult for students to visualize sound in different conditions.

Acoustical laboratory of BNCA is first of its kind in an Architectural Institute. The laboratory is being developed to benefit students of Architecture for Undergraduate as well as Postgraduates. The laboratory will mainly function as Reverberation Room. Reverberation, in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected from different surfaces which need to be controlled in enclosed spaces.

A reverberation room or reverberation chamber is a room designed to create reverberation, a diffuse or random incidence sound field within an enclosed space; generally required to design Noise sensitive spaces like Auditorium, Cinema Halls, Offices, Hotel Banquet, etc.. The reverberation chamber is widely used for measurement of sound absorption of materials and sound power emission from sources. The room is consisting of hard reflective surfaces to simulate reverberation. Various instruments like Omni speaker, Sound level meter, diffusers, absorbers, shall be used to perform actual experiments to simulate different conditions for indoor acoustics. Offering popular women’s necklaces such as pendants, chokers and. Shop for jewelry in a variety of metals and gemstones to suit any occasion.

The room will be used to for analyzing Reverberation time of such enclosed spaces; this will help students to optimize Reverberation time by applying various acoustical elements on existing surfaces of the room and find out the best suitable solutions. Students can use the Lab to cross check their design solutions especially when they are designing Noise sensitive zones of the building.

The lab can further be used to test acoustical materials or find out their absorptive capacities before applying them in Interiors. Acoustical laboratory shall function as a full fledge facility of BNCA, that shall benefit students of Architecture at Undergrad, Postgrad, as well as those interested in pursuing research in Architectural Acoustics, thus providing them a state of art real-world simulated environment, the first-of-its-kind in an Architectural Institute.