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Architectural objectives fall into three main categories: structural performance, physical environmental performance, and aesthetic and cultural performance. The acoustic performance relies in the second category with an important, yet not fully explored, impact on the other two. To further push the boundaries between categories in the design workflow, research on acoustic-performance based design has shown the benefits of the acoustic knowledge and quantifiable measures used to inform the design process from its earliest phases.This plenary aims to highlight how this approach strengthens the aesthetic and qualitative objectives leading to a more human-centric design. Moreover, it explores how the integration of acoustics with other environmental factors (e.g., thermal, lighting, air quality) that are conventionally considered more “mainstream”, improves multidomain decisionmaking during conceptual design, ensuring that quantifiable criteria are integrated from the outset through the systematic use of performance feedback.This talk will also be an opportunity to highlight the limitations of the current cultural and technical approaches by presenting some of the acoustic integration challenges in the design of acoustic environments through examples at different building scales. The aim is to illustrate possible future directions of research in architectural acoustics of everyday life spaces, which still presents important gaps to fill in within a multidisciplinary integration framework in the current architectural practice and architectural acoustic education in the context of growing sustainability demand and human-centric approach.