This work describes and analyses the principal contributions to the acoustics of occidental
Christian churches from the second half of the last century to the present day, mainly in …

Over the past decade, a substantial body of research exploring soundscapes in religious
historical buildings has emerged, yet a comprehensive summary of this work is lacking. This …

Hagia Sophia and Süleymaniye Mosque, built in the 6th and 16th centuries, respectively,
are the two major monuments of the İstanbul World Heritage Site. Within the context of this …

Building and room acoustics are relatively modern architectural and engineering disciplines.
Nevertheless, acoustics was also a concern for buildings in the past, eg, in theatres in …

In this study, surveys were conducted at four typical Han Chinese Buddhist temples. These
surveys were then analyzed to identify the subjective and objective factors of soundscape …

Wave-based techniques for room acoustics simulations are commonly applied to low
frequency analysis and small-sized simplified environments. The constraints are generally …

Uncertainty of the final results of room acoustic modelling is a result of uncertainties of many
model input parameters, which have to be discovered and limited if possible. It can be done …

This contribution presents research results on the stable acoustic microclimate of a
classroom and ventilation system design. The authors investigated the acoustic parameters …

This paper presents the study of the intervention for the acoustic correction of a modern
church. The investigated church was built in the 1960s, with a brutalist style and with a …

Abstract Architecture of Orthodox churches changed very little in its history as a
consequence of the strict adherence of liturgy and its related aspects, to the original canons …