MA in Architecture 

RCA, London, 2014

Echoes in an Urban Sound Barrier

Sound Barrier Design
‘Far from Equilibrium’ - Final outcome

    This project deals with the investigation of noise pollution from air-crafts and winds surrounding London City Airport area.The project is mainly a sound-barrier park of 800 meters long. The guest can interact also with the sustainable research laboratory facility since it is inside the park.
    The idea of a globalization for a library is in place, so as a traveller from or to a different country from LCA is recording and sending the sound to the site’s sound library where it goes on an mp3 player and visitors can hear with headphones different mixtures of sounds, from different countries and places.
    The dynamic and fluid forms of the building, as long with the surfaces and materials of it are helping to sense more the wind and stop or reflect the sound.
    The building is becoming a sculptural piece that has main functions (a) to put a boundary to the aircraft noise and (b) the sensory experience of different sounds produced by the air and winds found on site. Different moments are been generated to sense the wind found on site. These will always change due to the change of winds.
    Various materials that bounce, reflect or absorb the sound have been used. Such as pyramid foams and canvas sailing fabric. Also, some structural ways to construct it, for example, waffle structure becomes itself a sound absorbing element. Light also can pass through it for the purposes of lighting shadowed areas of the building.