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Covid 19 pandemic affected learning methods from offline to online. All parties involved in learning need to make various adaptations so that the learning process can run effectively. Students are required to focus on education at home (School from Home/SFH). The architectural learning method prioritizes practice in designing called Studio Class. It causes problems when it comes to changing the learning method online. Place of residence also plays an essential role. When they are SFH, the students live in private houses, rented houses, and boarding houses. The purpose of this study is to determine whether characteristics of the learning room environment (thermal, lighting, and audial) in the living space have a major impact on the success of SFH learning. This study employs quantitative research to ascertain the variables affecting environmental comfort through online questionnaire data. The thermal element is determined to have the greatest impact on overall comfort. Audial comfort is critical in breaking students’ concentration when performing studio exercises. In general, students who live in boarding houses do not feel disruption from surrounding noise, however students who live in private homes do.
ABSTRACT
As a large country with thousands of ethnic groups and cultures, it is hoped that every city in Indonesia will have its uniqueness. However, preliminary data collected from 10 major cities in Indonesia shows no identity. The most visited public places in these cities, i.e., parks and squares, which are ideally associated with nature's sound, are dominated by human noise and traffic noise. Surprisingly, a noisy acoustic environment is not considered a nuisance. The study reported here looks further at how the public place visitors perceived the acoustic environment during their visit. Also, to know whether the participants perceive unique sound that builds the sound environment of the public place. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an online questionnaire developed using a 5-point Likert scale was distributed to collect data. Five hundred and ninety-six respondents participated in the survey. A one-way ANOVA test was run to identify the mean point of the data gathered. At no surprise, it is again strengthened the former study, in which the participants perceived the urban environment in Indonesia as a busy environment. It is, again, caused mainly by traffic noise and human activity noise, and that no unique sound has emerged in the studied cities. The study's findings shall initiate a program to revive the unique sound of Indonesian cities as they were in the past. © INTER-NOISE 2021 .All right reserved.