Noise source for buildings adjacent streets is traffic-generated predominantly. Where people are mostly spend their time indoors, it is important for buildings to have screening or blocking to control noise intrusion into living spaces. But this blocking should also make air flow possible. This is important for middle to low cost domestic buildings, which do not employ conditioned ventilation. A common feature of Indonesian buildings, fence, is studied to perform noise barrier. The fence a barrier to be should comply three factors: position, dimension, and material. All these three factors were studied to seek compromised design for acoustic performances and natural ventilation. Domestic building situated in the urban area of Yogyakarta was studying to see the most possible design of the barrier to be. There are two calculation methods used to analise the proposed design. The study shows that it is possible to gain 10 dB noise reduction at minimum by placing the window within the shadow effect with fence-barrier of approximately 1.5 m height.