Conversion of a church into a concert hall: discussions about concerns and acoustic design solutions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Italy is a country rich in historical monuments such as: churches, theatres, squares, historic buildings, castles. The problem is to use these buildings for the purposes of possible cultural enjoyment. Thus it happens that churches can change their original intended use and be used as cultural attractors to host conferences or concerts. One possible solution is to change the acoustics of these places to adapt to concert or conference halls. The St Spirit’s church in Aversa, located north of Naples in Italy, is one of the historical-artistic buildings to be valorized. Built in the 18th century, the church was destroyed by the 1980 earthquake. Restoration work began in 2021 with the reconstruction of a new roof and the restoration of the floor and walls. This contribution deals with the acoustic project of the church. Inside the church, the construction of a stage in place of the altar and the installation of sound-absorbing panels are planned. To develop the project, acoustic measurements were carried out and, with the aid of dedicated software for architectural acoustics, possible solutions to improve the room’s acoustics were studied.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".