Measuring a site

The first project was to measure an aspect of the site: a triangular section of downtown auckland. This was a part of Auckland that I wasn't entirely familiar with, so on the first day it also gave me a new insight of Auckland CBD besides just Queen Street and High street.



This part of the city was mainly industrial and commercial, but what I was really interested in most was how loud and noise-polluted the area was. This gave spark to our idea (working in partners) to measure not only noise pollution, but also the areas where this large amount of noise from transport, commercial and industrial areas were blocked. The gave us a good idea of where the noise barriers were and ultimately places for recereation such as parks, or residential buildings.

The issues then was to decide how to express the collected data in a physical way that's not complicated, and how to measure this noise.