Educating of Architectural Students in Acoustics as an Answer to the Reverberant Noise Standard

Implementation of the new standard PN-B-02151-4 – Building Acoustics – Protection against Noise in Buildings, Part 4: Requirements for Reverberation Conditions and Indoor Speech Intelligibility and Testing Guidelines imposes on architects an obligation to design interiors in compliance with acoustic requirements. The above regulations give rise to the need to educate future architects so that the standard can be practically employed in their professional career. The aim of the article is to describe a teaching method tailored for students of architectural design compliant with the standard requirements without using specialized software programmes. The paper presents two types of design tasks that form a basis for teaching students within the framework of design practice in building physics – acoustics. The article shows how to teach students to facilitate full acquisition of the rules governing interior design compliant with reverberation parameters suitable for the assumed function, and to enable thorough comprehension of interior design.