The Use of Total Building Performance Approach to Assess the Negative Acoustical Impacts

Despite the importance of building acoustic quality in creating comfortable and healthy indoor environments, existing building facades often have limited or outdated insulation, glazing, and materials that compromise acoustic performance. In North Cyprus this issue is seen in myriad number of dwellings old and new, where the acoustic or rather the noise issue is not considered in both the design and in the construction stage of the project. This research will analyze a dwelling in relation to its acoustic conditions and introduce three different proposed kinetic façades onto the existing building to see if the proposed solutions have any effect on the indoor acoustic comfort. Thus, the phase of three-dimensional modelling will be conducted using Building Information Modeling (BIM) software such as Revit to model the dwelling and Grasshopper plugin software will be used to model the proposed kinetic façades, then lastly, they will be simulated using Pachyderm, acoustic software which is another plugin for the software Grasshopper and Rhinoceros, will be used for the acoustic simulation. These simulations conducted will focus on how the Adaptive Façades will interact with the sound generated from a source, as well as how it will affect the indoor acoustic quality. Keywords: Acoustic quality, Revit, Adaptive Façade, Noise, Acoustic Simulation, Grasshopper, Pachyderm