Audial comfort optimalization of the Lanraki Biringkanaya Makassar Church room

Abstract

Abstract Church is one of the unique worship buildings which is full of audial activities such as speech, songs, and music. The purpose of this research is to evaluate and give redesign suggestions so that the audial comfort in the church room can be achieved. Quantitative research method by analyzing data with the statistically-descriptive. Reverberation time was calculated by the Sabine formula, redesign using Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2011 program, and the questionnaire processed by IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program. The results conclude that the sound pressure level distribution has been spread evenly, while the background noise and the reverberation time in the church room still exceed the standard. But overall, the user has felt comfort with the condition of the audial church room. So, we made change of materials and furniture that may affect the value of reverberation time and background noise in a room. We hope this research can be a reference to design the next church or similar buildings.

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