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Multipurpose Halls

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Outdoor Performance

University of Arizona School of Dance

Hollywood Bowl

Multipurpose Halls

…the purposes don’t line up…

The Eugene Performing Arts Center, 1982Hardy Holtzman and Pfeiffer

Symphony Hall—2500 seats

Theatre—500 seats

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Restricted volume—TR = 1.2 sec

Electronic Enhancement

Electronic ReflectedEnergySystem(adds earlyreflections)

Assisted Resonance(tunes TR

from 1.7 to 2.7 sec)

Small Theatre

500 seats

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Douglas Fir Analogy

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Geode analogy…

C.J. Thomas Hall, Akron, Ohio

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TR = 1.55 - 1.8 sec

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TR = 1.67 sec

TR = 1.12 sec

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Stocker Art Center, Loraine C.C., Ohio

Variable Seating Capacity

983 seats, TR = 1.4 sec

664 seats, TR = 1.25 sec

445 seats, TR = 1.1 sec

Pierre Boulez Hall, Berlin

Frank Gehry Partners

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…a bowl in a box…

Reconfigure seating for multi-uses:

Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago

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Tuning Panels can

absorb or reflect

sound.

Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Jörn Utzen

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Inspiration? You decide. . .

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Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Frank O. Gehry

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Music Performance Outdoors

…a centuries-old tradition……from Pompei to the Acropolis…

Boston Pops Bandshell, Boston, Mass.

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Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA

1922 1926

1927 1928

1970

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Frank O. Gehry~1982

2004 Hodgetts and Fung

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Honolulu Bowl

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San Antonio Riverwalk Theatre

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Blossom Music Center, Akron, Ohio

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Aspen Design Center Auditorium, Aspen, Col.

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Jay Pritzger Pavilion,

Millennium Park,

ChicagoFrank O. Gehry

ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow, Idaho

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Good night from Moscow. . .

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