School Design Literature Review
Appropriate school design has a significant influence on learning and the satisfaction of teachers and students with educational environments.
Appropriate school design has a significant influence on learning and the satisfaction of teachers and students with educational environments.
Sound Matters combines an extensive review of the acoustic environments in contemporary offices with tools to alleviate undesirable conditions.
Distracting sound remains a serious issue in many workplaces and the GSA Public Buildings Service has written Sound Matters: How to Achieve Acoustic Comfort in the Contemporary Office to help rectify negative situations.
Houix and his colleagues have developed a system for categorizing environmental sounds.
Jahncke and her colleagues explored the performance repercussions of noise in open-plan offices.
Designers can benefit from a better understanding of how people think about and react to the natural environment.
Researchers continue to probe the most advantageous forms for workplaces.
A recent article in The New York Times by Guy Gugliotta drew attention to the hard and valuable work of psychoacousticians.
Here’s something to ponder the next time you hear that an environment is too noisy.
Designers are regularly asked to create spaces for confidential conversations to take place.