Home Studio: reutilização e adaptação de cômodos residenciais

Abstract

Due the constant technology advancements and the popularization of music recording equipment becoming more popular, anyone can take part in the phonographic production inside their own residences through a home studio. However, the most part of these rooms are inadequate because of a weak execution or a lack building planning, occurring several acoustic problems that makes huge impacts on its main activity object: the audio. When it comes to a studio, its quality is always related to the room’s conditions, since in the acoustics, the sound behavior depends on size, shape and its surfaces of the room where audio is being reproduced. Letting it be known, this assignment developed a unique method to cover the whole process of adapting a common residential room into a home studio showing: how to identify and choose the best rooms for this purpose through the Bolt Beranek & Newman diagram classification; the home studio typologies that can be used according to the type of apartment; how to solve potential dimensions and geometries problems; and acoustic treatment execution processes, with guidelines on how avoid or attenuate noise transmission, as well as modifying and enhancing sound characteristics and behaviors to obtain the best acoustic performance results. At the end, to a better comprehension of all these concepts, it is presented an acoustic architectural project containing details and further explanation of insulation, conditioning and its layout, that proves the proposed methodology is effective.