Noise pollution has been impacting negatively on living comfort and working environment
for a long time. Acoustic treatment on building façade is one of the effective means to tackle …

One's own voice (autophony) is transmitted to the ears as direct airborne sound, bone
conduction, and indirect airborne sound from reflections characterized by overall gain and …

This paper examines acoustic retroreflection from a polytrihedral dome that was used in
creative-arts practice-led research as a unique, high voice support singing practice space …

Activities conducted outdoors have reduced risk of disease transmission and yield positive
mental and physical effects, but outdoor environments commonly suffer from acoustic …

This study investigates acoustic reflection from three building façades, each of which forms
an array of corner cube retroreflectors. The façade of Latimer Hall (Berkeley, USA) has deep …

Retroreflection is rarely used as a surface treatment in architectural acoustics but is found
incidentally with building surfaces that have many simultaneously visible concave right …

In a context of stereotomy, robotic subtractive cutting enables design-to-production
processes that integrate craftsmanship with advanced manufacturing technology. This paper …

Featured Application The concepts developed in this paper could be used in buildings to
increase acoustic comfort in rooms for speech. Such treatments could play a role in …

It is well known that nowadays noise is one of the main causes of the disqualification of life:
the tendency to reach the regulatory thresholds and the extension of noisy areas lead to …

This is a cross-disciplinary thesis consisting of both acoustics science research and practice-
led research focused on improvised music performance. In very different ways, both types of …