Abstract
The indoor acoustic environment is important, especially in educational settings where speech intelligibility matters the most. Traditional acoustic treatments are often criticised for lacking aesthetic taste and environmental benefits. This paper examines the effectiveness of a living wall in optimising the acoustic performance of an architectural design studio at Taizhou University. Employing the interrupted noise method, the reverberation times and absorption coefficients before and after installing a living wall, across frequency bands from 100 to 5000 Hz, were measured. The data was used in numerical simulations adopting the Odeon software to predict the acoustic impacts of the living wall of three typical classrooms in the university. The results reveal that the living wall reduced the reverberation time by an average of 0.19–0.47 s in the critical speech frequencies, underscoring its potential as a viable, multifunctional element in architectural acoustic design.
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