School and university lunch rooms are spaces with significant acoustic problems. Being areas frequented by many students, with attendance usually highly concentrated during the lunch hour, the noise level can easily reach high peaks, resulting in difficulties in communication and understanding.
Noise problems in lunch rooms
Lunch rooms are usually characterised by large volumes and particularly significant reflective surfaces such as high ceilings, large windows and smooth floors. This leads to the phenomenon of reverberation: the noise produced bounces off surfaces, propagating itself in all directions. The result is a prolongation of the sound duration, with widespread noise pollution.
Solutions: sound-absorbing ceiling and wall panels and freestanding complements
To solve these problems, it is advisable to intervene by installing suitable sound-absorbing products for both ceiling and walls. Acoustic panels with certified performance such as Silente, Nuvola, Dot, Flag and Sail help reduce reverberation times by absorbing the sound waves. In addition, the inclusion of mobile, freestanding sound-absorbing elements such as D-Space partition panels and Menhir totems makes the rooms more flexible. These easily movable complements can vary in configuration according to specific needs. Finally, to increase creativity and play with different tones, acoustic panels can be customised with custom colours and prints.
In this way, chaotic and noisy lunch rooms can be transformed into spaces with comfortable acoustics, able to also accommodate other activities, thus expanding the range of possible uses of the space beyond the mere lunch break.