3 Basic Principles of Sound

Principles Of Sound:

When sound waves strikes an object, it encounters one of three possible outcomes:

Reflection- Where sound waves bounce back.

Absorption- When the waves pass through the obstacle itself.

Diffusion- The scattering of sound waves due to impact is referred to as diffusion.

how is it a sustainable design ?

grey water from the neighborhood is pumped into the site and treated through landscape plants to get fresh water which is again given back the community for domestic purposes .

Components of Aural Architecture

How do we process Urban noise ? Secret revealed !!!

Standing wave 

How do we process Urban Noise ?Secret revealed !!!
water flowing at a certain velocity from  a specific height and even birds chirp  has the same frequency  as Urban noise in this case Car honking Aeroplane noise ,etc  so when two sound of the same frequency are merged IN THE opposite direction  STANDING WAVES ARE CREATED.
WHAT ARE STANDING WAVES ?A standing wave – also known as a stationary wave – is a wave that remains in a constant position.This phenomenon can occur because the medium is moving in the opposite direction to the wave, or it can arise in a stationary medium as a result of interference between two wa  ves traveling in opposite directions.  

How sound defines space ?

how Aural architecture looks at sound as design?

: how sound defines space, creates realms of privacy or society, and produces a sense of place.

With environmental sound, LOUDNESS and the quality of REVERBERATION mainly determine the kind of space that is perceived, enclosed or open, large or small (see DIFFUSE SOUND FIELD,FREE FIELD). The sense of speeding motion is usually perceived by the presence of a DOPPLER EFFECT.

Buildings come to exist as sites of memory and imagination. Any built space, whether constructed for habitation or utility, resonates with the human activity that has occurred within it. Our experience of a space is influenced by many things; by knowledge of the functions of the space, by cultural associations, by memory and imagination. The way we experience a space is determined largely by our aural perception of that space. One can be in a room in complete darkness and yet still have a powerful sense of our own physical presence within it, through the sound of footfall, of the voice and even the sound of our our breath.

what is silence ?

The term 'silence' is not referring mere absence of sound, but the spatial atmosphere related to our independent sensory and mental state, which could be listened, observed, known and even touched.

Digital sketch of contrast sound scape

Sound healing

"Sound is the medicine of the future." Edgar Cayce
Most ancient cultures used the seemingly magical power of sound to heal.
The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal with sound. 
The Egyptian and Babylonian cultures used drums and rattles, two of the earliest known musical instruments. The low frequency sounds from drums and the ultra sound created by rattles are both now known to accelerate healing. 


In the Greco-Roman period healing temples were used for "incubation", a process in which patients underwent "dream sleep", among other known modalities. It seems likely that music was used therapeutically during their stay and the reverberant spaces of the temples enhanced the efficiency of acoustic instruments, a function of the solid stonewalls of temples and sanatoria. 

Resonance may be the most important principle of sound healing and has various definitions.

The resonance principle relates to the cellular absorption of the healing sounds and/or their harmonics. 

noise measure at kathipara site

Birds habitat

Digital sketch of the Sound gallery