The auditorium within the Heydar Aliyev Center serves for an audience of 1200 and incorporates conference, concert and opera use altogether. Confronting the multi-functional performance program of the space together with uncompromising aesthetic considerations, coupled space concept has been adopted as an acoustical and architectural design aid. This paper presents mainly the dependable acousti...

Virtual acoustics and auralizations have been previously used to study the perceptual properties of concert hall acoustics in a descriptive profiling framework. The results have indicated that the apparent auditory distance to the orchestra might play a crucial role in enhancing the listening experience and the appraisal of hall acoustics. However, it is unknown how the acoustics of the hall in...

The Cantonese sentences in (2) illustrate these claims. They denote past events and there are no markers attached to the verb (subclaim (1a)). Subclaim (1b) is illustrated by the minimal pair in (2b) and (2c): the latter describes a current situation and the former, with the temporal adverb ML FLQ ‘formerly’, describes a past event. (The superscripts in the Cantonese renderings are tone markers.)

Typical approaches to design patterns present them in the catalog form. For undergraduate students this abstract description of the pattern makes it even more difficult to understand its purpose and need. In this paper we describe a tool used at a university course to enable the students to learn architectural patterns by looking at code. The tool presented in this paper shows the solution to a...