Church “Nuestra Señora de la Paz” is located in Pilar, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has an octagonal floor plan and an internal volume of 2500 m3 with bare sidewalls and little ornamentation. Excessive reverberation (4 seconds at mid-band frequencies), and an inappropriate sound system impaired speech intelligibility making ceremonies almost unintelligible. The church also suffered from thermal problems due to insufficient thermal insulation on the roof. Measurements (reverberation time, impulse responses and STI) were carried out and subsequent analysis revealed the significance of these problems. A holistic acoustical and thermal renovation was proposed and a new sound system was designed to address these issues. Subsequent measurements validated the effectiveness of the proposed renovations.
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11 September 2016
22nd International Congress on Acoustics: Acoustics for the 21st Century
5–9 September 2016
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architectural Acoustics: Paper ICA2016 - 77
January 05 2017
Acoustical renovation of “Nuestra Señora de la Paz”
Fernando del Solar Dorrego
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Fernando del Solar Dorrego
1Department of Electrical Engineering,
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Pablo Gardella
Pablo Gardella
1Department of Electrical Engineering,
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
, Buenos Aires, Argentina
; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Department of Electrical Engineering,
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
, Buenos Aires, Argentina
; [email protected]; [email protected]Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 28, 015002 (2016)
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Received:
November 14 2016
Accepted:
November 16 2016
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Fernando del Solar Dorrego, Pablo Gardella; Acoustical renovation of “Nuestra Señora de la Paz”. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 11 September 2016; 28 (1): 015002. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0000343
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