ASSESSMENT OF RELIABILITY PREDICTIONS OF THE REVERBERATION TIME BY USING THE ARCHITECTONIC SOFTWARE PACKAGE ECOTECT

Abstract

Contemporary architectonic design mostly relies on the software tools which enable the engineers to analyze multiple factors affecting a space, and to timely detect and correct certain errors in designing, resulting from attempting to satisfy certain aspects of a space at the expense of others. Those tools which apart from architecture itself also consider other fields of science, depending on the function of these areas are important; thus in the lecture halls designing process, adequate software for analysis is used. In addition to a number of acoustic parameters characterizing the acoustic response of a room, in terms of design, one of the most important factors affecting the acoustics of the indoor areas is reverberation time, which is characterized by the architectonic parameters: room volume (dimensions), shape (form) and materialization (finish material). In this paper, for the purposes of acoustic analysis of the A amphitheater, the parametric values obtained in two ways, by experimental measuring and by software - Autodesk Ecotect and Autodesk Revit Architecture are compared. The software is increasingly used in contemporary architectonic software because of the option to analyze acoustics of indoor space, so there is a need to analyzed the values provided by the software and compare them with actually measured reverberation time.