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Schiphol uses landscaping to cut the roar from planes by HALF
Full title: Is this the answer to airport noise? Schiphol in Amsterdam uses clever landscaping to cut the roar from planes by HALF Parks design dampens noise pollution by aircraft from Schiphol airport 80-acre site uses dips in landscape inspired by furrows ploughed in fields Site has become an oasis of quiet near to busy airport By Nicholas Kynaston For MailOnline Published: 07:56 EST, 19 June 2015 There's a strange new park near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. From the air it looks like a diamond-shaped maze, with wide ditches and embankments covered in grass - like a jagged version of 'crop circle' art. But the park's odd appearance has a breathtakingly simple explanation. Designed by artist Paul de Kort, its function is to dampen sound from the nearby airport for local residents. And it's proved to be incredibly effective, cutting noise by half. |
Link to the story and more importantly pictures is here. I'll have to remember to look for this in Sept. for my visit through AMS.
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tcook's link isn't set up right, but here's a pic:
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.c...0_q85_crop.jpg |
Looks great, but remember that the decibel scale is logarithmic, so a noise reduction of half is a decrease of about 3 decibels.
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Per http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-how-post.html will send this to the appropriate destination forum while leaving a permanent link in Travel News
cblaisd Moderator, Travel News |
Debatable whether this is destination specific. The topic is interesting and newsworthy generally.
Plenty in the travel news section would never have seen it otherwise (although I would not have seen it in "Travel News", as I don't look there). |
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