ComponenteDevoto_acoustic analisys?

During the meeting we had on friday, me and professor Bianchi tried to understand how to analize the acoustic performance of my component. We tried moreover to understand wheter the box sistem is better than the open sistem.

Concering the analysis, it's professor's opinion that we won't obtain any result, because current softwares just work on another scale (my component should be too little). It's not possible, according to professor Bianchi, to see what happens below the component's shading. These programs are supposed to work without the evaluation of the shape or configuration; rather it can evaluate the overall acoustic of a room, by inserting manually the supposed value of each thing.

We have been in agreement with using a Reflection Phase Grating (whose values are note) to obtain best diffusion results. Thus we could spare designing a big box: besides the excellent diffusion, a good reverberation time will be gained by the presence of the listener on the component. Indeed, to absorbe the sound it's necessary something that can deaden the sound wave, something soft. Human beings and clothes are indeed soft: for instance, the acoustic performance of an auditorium has to be calculated with both full-hall and half-full hall, beacuse the presence of listenerers infuences acoustics significantly. This design choice could be decisive, because it configures my component as a "scratched shell".

Therefore, i will produce a series of sketch configurations, in order to go next week and see wether the softwares will be useful.

In the end, it's necessary to sort out the use of the component. It could be tought for a room, thus it shall be small and foldable. Otherwise, its destination could be somewhere like a club, which needs a full designed component (with the sitting), possibly modular.