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Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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A design for a sound-proof house for people living near Suvarnabhumi airport has earned three Rangsit University (RSU) students an architecture award. They say their design would keep out 60% of the noise. The winners are Pichaya Prasertwong, Jaruek Taweesri-amnuay and Intat Wejsan from RSU’s architecture faculty.

They beat 37 other teams in a contest for a sound-proofed house organised by King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Lat Krabang (KMITL).

The winning design has double-glazed walls which serve the double purpose of plane-viewing pleasure and a noise barrier.

It also incorporates the latest noise reduction technology employed at stations used by Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed bullet trains.

”Almost 70% of the construction materials are sound-deadening,” said Mr Jaruek.

”Design contests typically deal with energy conservation.

”For this competition we had to do extensive research and use a lot of imagination to come up with suitable materials and construction techniques.”

The designed house fits on a 50 square wah (200 square metres) block of land and costs no more than two million baht to build, said Mr Jaruek.

Walls are mostly made of double-glass, similar to aircraft windows, which provide sound and heat insulation. Concrete walls are made of cool block bricks with foam in the middle, which also shield the house against noise and heat.

For better sound insulation, the bedroom and living room walls are built with two gypsum boards, with fibre insulation in between.

The balcony and exterior laths are tilted at the same angle as the exterior of the Japanese bullet train stations, which have proven successful in reducing noise in the station neighbourhood.

Mr Jaruek said the curved roof would reflect the constant roar of planes passing overhead as they land and take off.

Mr Pichaya said he trusted the design would be useful elsewhere as the continuing expansion of the train network and highways was likely to increase noise pollution in Bangkok.

Contest judge Pichet Sowittayasagul, of KMITL’s architecture faculty, said the winning design should offer 60% noise protection.

He was impressed with the trio’s use of exciting and interesting sound-proofing techniques, such as the double-glazed wall and tilted laths.

He said the students’ work would be a guide for communities living under aircraft noise from Suvarnabhumi airport on how to improve the quality of their lives.

Contest chairman Pongthip Inkaew said the noise-reduction measures the contest offered would be helpful to Suvarnabhumi neighbours who lacked the funds to move away.

KMITL deputy rector Siriwat Bhothivejjakul said there were seven award-winning designs altogether.

They would be built in the KMITL compound near the new Bangkok Airport to study their noise-reduction ability.

Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has pressed officials to quickly tackle the problems.

Airports of Thailand last Tuesday estimated it needed 121.5 billion baht to compensate owners of property to the north and south of the runways.

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