STUDY OF THE ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ RESIDENCES FOR ONLINE LECTURES ACTIVITIES WITH SOUNDSCAPE APPROACHMENT

• Main Author: Inezkea Nabila Bainus, Die
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/65159
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all office activities, lectures, schools, and others have encountered obstacles where individuals are not permitted to gather so that almost all works must done from their residences. One of the activities that must have done from residences is lecture activities. Residences are generally not designed to implement lecture activities, so there are lots of disturbances from the surrounding environment that can affect the quality and performance of college student learning. This research was conducted to identify the quality of the acoustic conditions of the environment for online lecture activities. The steps of this research are: identification of environmental aspects that affect the quality of online lectures, identification of environmental aspect that the most affecting on the quality of online lectures, and identification of correlation between the main environmental aspects and objective parameters. The soundscape approach method is used to evaluate the respondents' assessment of the acoustic environment in their residences. The analysis shows that the aspects of residence that can affect the quality of online lectures are aspects of focus and acoustic conditions, comfort and visual conditions, thermal conditions, and and room conditions, with aspects of focus and acoustic conditions as the most affecting aspect on the quality of online lectures. Based on subjective parameter in the form of a focus and acoustic conditions scale, the perception of college students who are living in a boarding house is different from the perception of college students who are living at the house regarding the thermal and space conditions of the recidences. Based on the objective parameter in the form of sound pressure level, the A-weighted equivalent sound pressure level in the boarding house is same as the A-weighted equivalent sound pressure level at the house, which is in the interval of 57-76 dBA. The correlation between subjective and objective parameters is inversely correlated to the sound pressure levels that exceeded for mor that 10% and 50% of the exposure time.