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| Author(s): |
Roberta Smiderle
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo |
| Defense date: | 2013-02-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Stelamaris Rolla Bertoli;
Evandro Ziggiatti Monteiro;
Erasmo Felipe Vergara
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| Advisor: | Stelamaris Rolla Bertoli |
| Abstract | |
Acoustic Intelligibility is one of the great important subjects for the performance of many environments such as catholic churches. Such places are used for many types of performances requiring adequate intelligibility for speech and clarity for music. The acoustic performance of worship places has been studied for a while because such places can accommodate not only religious events but also different kinds of events related or not to religion. Along Catholicism history, the church as an institution has been changing over the years the procedure of its rituals such as the mass and opening their temples to other kinds of performances making the acoustic performance of such environments require great deal of complexity. This research analyzed six catholic churches in the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Churches were chosen according its period of construction and architectural typology. The objective of this research is to study the acoustic performance of these churches and establish a relationship with the architectural characteristics of the temple. Measurement of acoustic parameters such as Reverberation Time (RT), Early Decay Time (EDT), Clarity Index (C80), Definition (D50) and Speech Transmission Index (STI) were used to analyze the acoustic performance of the churches. Measurements were done according to ISO 3382-1:2009. Churches can be considered performance spaces due to its broader possibilities of use, making it possible to compare its data with other similar researches. Results were also analyzed according to procedures specifically proposed for those spaces found in the literature making it possible to qualify the acoustic behavior of churches for each specific use and allowing further studies and comparisons (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04344-8 - The acoustics of the Catholic churches in Campinas: since the founding of the city till the present days. |
| Grantee: | Roberta Smiderle |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |