Acoustic comfort and its importance for wellness
Acoustics comfort is an increasingly important topic between architects and interior designers due to its role in boosting productivity and reducing low levels of anxiety for regular users of an indoor environment, be it an office or home.
Why is it so important?
Well, for the beginning of our written journey to acknowledge acoustic as one of the most important factors to relieve pain such as headache, lack of concentration or annoyance - let’s focus on how acoustic comfort in buildings has been finally linked to humans, and not just the mere isolation process.
The acoustic was analyzed as a physical factor of the space, such as lighting and temperature.
Acoustics is not only there to offer performative products in terms of sound absorbency, but it’s also there as a tool to study the space, the environment, and finally the habits of people, all in order to provide and guarantee the best indoor comfort - acoustic comfort and wellness!
How to improve our acoustic comfort
Investing in an indoor acoustic comfort concept, we put the wholesome wellbeing is the focus! By addressing the absolute necessity of the inclusion of acoustic wellness among the priorities of each building project, we can create interesting acoustic themes and build new solutions for the future indoor scenery.
If we are cold - we recognize it by putting a sweater on. if the sun is too strong - we will immediately wear sunglasses, but - what can we do to improve our acoustic comfort?
Sound-absorbent products
The innovation the studies based on the importance of acoustic comfort for wellness have been recognized in architecture, building and design, with a large choice of different solutions to win the acoustic comfort challenge and make any project, and any place made for human inhabitation, more acoustically healthy and suiting.
With a wide range of sound-absorbent products designed to meet the different needs of various spaces: from offices to restaurants, meeting rooms to hospitals, libraries to airports, and create a space that is friendly, pleasant, open and fluid.
Technical details - colours, shapes and 3D visualisation
Shapes and colours of carpets, floorings or decorative elements also have enhanced acoustic comfort implications. Taking the soundscape approach through 3D visualisation to a study acoustic comfort for wellness can identify spaces that need most of the acoustic interventions and improvements.
Made in different colours, finishing and shapes, all the products made to fit into the high acoustic performance are usually installed to reduce volume.
The use of ecological materials
Besides this strong attention to technical details, acoustic wellness philosophy is also about the use of ecological, sustainable, renewable, green materials.
That’s an important point in the development of new products and projects for the future of the niche such as sustainable interior design.
Tools and materials to improve acoustic comfort
The right materials already exist, now it is only time to put them in good use and make a completely new culture. These materials also have heat-insulating properties that make them more environmentally friendly.
They come in different shapes like panels, rolls, nets, paddings or slabs, with the possibility to be built in or multilayered in any structures such as underfloors or partitions who divide walls.
The livability of acoustic performance determines the quality of life of everyone who uses that space, and the time has come to stop correcting acoustic comfort in buildings “a posteriori”, and cure the damage upon being made, and become acquainted with the process of prevention.
Eco walls
Eco walls can create a colourful and light acoustic barrier for the walls and ceiling, maintaining the concept of freedom in any space, but adding some special feeling of wellness.
They fit harmoniously into spaces of multiple functions, such as offices, homes, hospitals or restaurants, gyms or wherever you need the acoustic comfort.
Eco walls combine curved surfaces and they have a characteristic style, with the density and porosity of some of the stone materials, with sound-absorbent qualities thus contributing to improving acoustic wellness better than traditional stone panels.
These walls allow mixing insulation and the absorption of sound waves which makes them naturally fit for acoustic comfort and wellness.
Panels
Panels made of natural and eco-friendly materials are the perfect combination of innovation and flexibility, ecology and sound absorption, with the final goal to improve the acoustic comfort of the workplace and relax spaces.
In need of open space?
Eco-friendly panels become an elegant, modular system, which allows the creation of workstations and separators. The 3D-looking arrangement is pleasant and guarantees high acoustic performance.
If hung from the ceiling, these panels create a nice layout, able to exploit the acoustic performance and modify the refraction of sound waves.
Spaces that have been engineered and designed with the proper acoustics can make a huge difference in people’s daily lives and improve their health and wellness.
Acoustic is something that shouldn’t be ignored!
A bedroom where the noise generated from traffic is cancelled, for example, promotes a night of better sleep and rest. Productivity soars in offices where noise doesn’t interfere. It’s a fact that people escape the rigours of the outside world by spending more time inside, even while working or exercising.
Biofilico can provide a full range of solutions tailored to the unique needs of working spaces and the structural attributes of residences. Through thoughtful examination of a space and its occupants, we create a better health and wellness atmosphere in homes and prestigious commercial environments.