N2 - This study presents the indoor soundscape framework in detail by describing the variables and factors that form an indoor soundscape study. The main objective is to introduce a new indoor soundscaping framework and systematically explain the variables that contribute to the overall evaluation of an indoor soundscape. Hence, the dependencies of physical and psychoacoustical factors of the sound environment and the spatial factors of the built entity are statistically tested. The new indoor soundscaping framework leads to an overarching evaluation perspective of enclosed sound environments, combining objective room acoustics research and noise control engineering with architectural analysis. Therefore, it is hypothesised that case spaces with certain plan organisations, volumetric relations, and spatial referencing lead to differentiated sound pressure level (SPL) and loudness (N) values. SPL and N parametric variances of the sound environments are discussed through the statistical findings with respect to the architectural characteristics of each library case space. The results show that the relation between crowd level variances and sound environment parametric values is statistically significant. It is also found that increasing the atrium height and atrium void volume, the atrium’s presence as a common architectural element, and its interpenetrating reference and domain containment results in unwanted variances and acoustic formations, leading to high SPL and N values. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101341/PDF/aoa-2016-0020.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101341 PY - 2016 IS - No 2 EP - 212 DO - 10.1515/aoa-2016-0020 KW - soundscape framework KW - indoor space soundscaping KW - indoor sound environment KW - spatial analysis KW - archi-acoustical characteristics KW - library KW - architectural analysis A1 - Yorukoglu, Papatya Nur Dokmeci A1 - Kang, Jian PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 41 DA - 2016 T1 - Analysing Sound Environment and Architectural Characteristics of Libraries through Indoor Soundscape Framework SP - 203 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101341 T2 - Archives of Acoustics