The Residential Soundscape Preferences in Indonesia: The Real and The Expectation

Abstract

The soundscape approach is one of the acoustic assessment tools which has an important role in shaping sustainable and healthy cities. The quality of the acoustic environments needed to be considered because when such quality is poor, it will affect the quality of life and well-being of a human. In a residential environment, people have their expectations of soundscape preferences in order to achieve a good quality of the acoustic environment. But the existing condition often is contradictive with the expectations. This study aims to compare the in-situ and expected soundscape conditions of urban residential and gated-residential in Indonesia. The perceived affective quality and sound sources aspects will be analysed in order to achieve this purpose. The research method used a mix of the quantitative and qualitative method through an online questionnaire to identify the sound sources that perceived by respondents who lived in urban and gated-residentials in several cities in Indonesia. The result of this study shown both urban residential and gated residential in Indonesia have the same soundscape conditions. People still perceived the in-situ soundscape condition differently than their expectations, where their existing soundscape conditions haven’t met with their soundscape preferences. The results of this study can be references for government or private sectors in designing residential areas with good quality of soundscape in order to achieve sustainable communities and cities.