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50 pages :
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30 x 21 cm.
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Berlin and other big cities, such as London or Paris, suffer from space shortage. Not only relating to living spaces but also leisure and cultural spaces. On the downside, there are many abandoned buildings in Berlin that are not in use anymore. For example, sanatoriums or hotels but also leisure parks and swimming baths. Sadly, there is no number or data to be found of how many buildings are abandoned in Berlin. One can only guess. Assumingly there are at least 40. As already mentioned, almost all of those places are not in use anymore, be it because of financial or authorization problems of the state or the owner, that they are listed buildings, and dealing with listed buildings require much work, or that there is purely no common interest of renovating or reusing them by the owner or neighbourhood. Even if some of the historical backgrounds the object carries with itself are problematic, all buildings once had an essential purpose for the German economy, health system, education, or leisure. For example, the old tuberculosis clinic "Waldhaus" in Berlin Pankow, the anatomical institute in Berlin Zehlendorf or the Stadtbad Lichtenberg, also known as Hubertusbad. Latter will be the space referred to in this thesis and its belonging project. Considering that many of the unused swimming baths in Berlin were once crucial for the well-being of the citizens, speaking of fitness and basic human hygiene, and now are being left to decay, it offers the question of what can be done to call attention to those places and, simultaneously, bring back some of the former purpose and history of the building. Everyone that has been to an indoor swimming pool sooner or later notices the displeasing acoustics such a place holds. Sounds and noises are intensely loud and echo from each wall of the space. Even though architects are already trying to solve the problem since swimming baths serve as a place for training and retreat, what if one tries to work with it and uses those reverberating spaces to create concert halls that may benefit from echoing surroundings? In the following thesis the question "In what extent can reverberating spaces in particular swimming baths benefit from their acoustical features to create concert halls?" will be examined and its outcome implemented in the practical part of the thesis.
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DISSERTATION NOTE : submitted as bachelor thesis in Interior Architecture / Interior Design, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, 2021
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE : Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Methodology 2. Characteristics of Swimming Baths 2.1. Challenges of Giving a Space a New Purpose 3. Acoustic Design 3.1. Acoustics in performing/concert halls 3.2. Principles 3.2.1. Absorption, Reflection, Diffusion 3.3. Reverberation Time 4. Music for Reverberating Spaces 5. Case Studies 5.1. Oderberger Hotel 5.2. Kulturhaus Neubad Luzern 5.3. Snape Maltings 5.4. Case Study Conclusion 6. Stadtbad Lichtenberg "Hubertusbad" 6.1. History of the building 6.1.1. Why did I choose the Hubertusbad 6.2. Design Idea 6.2.1. Difficulties while working with a Listed Building 6.3. Relation between Project and Topic 7. Conclusion References
Language:
English
Keywords:
Academic theses
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Case studies
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Academic theses
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Case studies
