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Comfort concept is not only limited to thermal comfort, as some people think. On the contrary, it is a broad concept which includes several aspects that must be taken into consideration when designing. Acoustic comfort is considered as one of the most important of these aspects, especially in large space buildings, as acoustic design is an essential designing need whose integration with other designing needs brings about comfort in its broadest concept. The acoustic design and achieving the acoustic needs in specialized audio halls and mosques has been the topic of several studies. But the lack of studies, if any, on acoustic comfort in other kinds of buildings like exhibition halls was the reason behind targeting on these kinds of halls which require both audio and vision clarity in order to achieve its entertaining and educational goals. Problems in buildings performance, specifically comfort and acoustic comfort problems, canít be discovered until the buildings are occupied. So, information technology means, of which computer simulation programs are the most important because they work simultaneously with the designing process, are used to help solve these problems. As they offer the opportunity to find solutions for the expected problems and to amend the design accordingly. To put the above mentioned theory in action, the methodology used in this research is that of setting acoustic performance parameters and testing the elected ones by simulation program ëEcotectí. Tables and figures showing the results are included.

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