Resumen de The sonic space in architectural design: how architects and urban designers should take sound as a design tool for creating space in architecture and the city
Fausto Eduardo Rodríguez Manzo, Elisa Garay Vargas
Usually sound has been the field of least interest in architectural design. Architects and urban designers have not developed forms or methods to approach sound from the architectural and urban design point of view, there are very few ideas about how to take on board sound as a component of the architectural and the urban space. Some proposals about soundscape for the city and the landscape have been developed, but this approach relates more with an artistic thinking than an architectural one. This is a field more in the way of conceiving a space as a music composition. Probably we can take it as a basis but the need of taking sound into account as an essential component of the architectural and the urban space has to develop new design tools for conceiving space in architecture and the city. The question is, how architects and urban designers should take sound as part of their design methods to use it as a tool for their daily design tasks? This is the kind of research that the authors are developing and this paper offers a proposal about this design matter and shows an analytic approach with some architectural and urban space examples.
