The young architect's guide to room acoustics

Most students in architecture are unable to design a concert hall from the acoustic textbooks, especially if the hall’s volume is much less than used for symphony orchestras. Therefore a method is proposed to read the reverberation time and loudness from a simple G-RT-diagram as a function of volume and mean absorption coefficient. An “ideal curve” is proposed as “target values” in the first stages of the design process. They are also used to interpret the numbers generated by computer models in order to readjust the shape of the hall and the materials used.