AUGMENTED SOUNDSCAPES

This project focuses on the urban soundscape and it's interaction with humans as an especially rich and entirely variable space. By utilizing basic acoustic principles of reflection, diffusion and absorbtion to craft a programmatic space, architecture that serves the purpose of exposing the user to environmental sounds in a designed and powerful way can be achieved. Within a dynamic architectural system, sounds ability to create stronger recall as well as be a motivator through pure pace can create space in consideration of variability and the sonic end product. Sound A curated, if not composed, polyphonic amalgamation of the site's sounds through a speaker array, electronic means of projection and distortion of site recorded sounds, and actively controllable participation with buskers and listeners is created. The architecture acts only as an environment to reinforce the sonic desire for the space and act as physical and sonic barrier at specific frequencies again dependent on the programmatic adjacencies.