Thesis: Landscape of Sound
Thesis: Landscape of Sound from Sng Poh Liang
Thesis: Landscape of Sound

Full thesis title- A Landscape of Sound on the East Coast: Redesigning the Gateway to a Public Park.

This thesis seeks to explore the experience of spaces in a public park through sound, a sense that has become less depended on as compared to sight.

3 types of sounds were focused upon in this project- Anthrophony, Geophony and Anti-noise. Biophony, the 4th type of sound, was delibrately left untouched to dictate its own travel.

The architectural strategy of roofs and its structure was employed in the constructing of this landscape of sound. The family of roofs either treat existing or new sounds (amplification, reflection, containment, dampening), or produce new sounds (as a acoustical instrument of wind and water) with respect to the various site programs and characteristics.

When recreational lovers journey through this soundscape, they will be bombarded by a series of sounds that are determined by their own movement.

A landscape of sound on the East Coast public park. A traffic-heavy expressway lies behind this recreational soundscape.
View of the soundscape from the opposite side.
Mapping of existing sounds of the entire East Coast public park. Red: Anthrophony, Blue: Geophony, Green: Biophony, White: Quietness.
Site plan of the landscape of sound. Through this gesture, the congregation and combinations of different spaces and programs in the soundscape also suggest itself as a gateway for this park.
Red: Anthrophony, Blue: Geophony, White: Quietness.
1: Anthrophony. Sounds of communities and people.
Studies on how the tilt and curvature of roofs reflect and contain sound from people-centric sources.
Section of anthrophonic zone.
Detail section.
2: Geophony. Sounds of wind and water.
The flue pipe that generate sounds of different frequencies when played by wind.
Desired frequencies determining the sizes of flue pipes to be integrated into the wind tower.
East Coast wind data.
Section of geophonic zone.
Section of geophonic zone.
Detail sections.
3: Anti-noise. Absorption of unwanted sounds.
Section of anti noise zone.
Detail sections.
Panels.
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Thesis: Landscape of Sound

Full thesis title- A Landscape of Sound on the East Coast: Redesigning the Gateway to a Public Park.

This thesis seeks to explore the experience of spaces in a public park through sound, a sense that has become less depended on as compared to sight.

3 types of sounds were focused upon in this project- Anthrophony, Geophony and Anti-noise. Biophony, the 4th type of sound, was delibrately left untouched to dictate its own travel.

The architectural strategy of roofs and its structure was employed in the constructing of this landscape of sound. The family of roofs either treat existing or new sounds (amplification, reflection, containment, dampening), or produce new sounds (as a acoustical instrument of wind and water) with respect to the various site programs and characteristics.

When recreational lovers journey through this soundscape, they will be bombarded by a series of sounds that are determined by their own movement.

Sng Poh Liang
Architecture graduate, lover of art + all sorts of design.... Singapore, Singapore