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340 Part C Architectural <strong>Acoustics</strong><br />

Part C 9.7<br />

2<br />

Seating capacity 2839<br />

1 1575<br />

2 1264<br />

2<br />

1<br />

1<br />

10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90<br />

(ft)<br />

5 0 10 20 30 (m)<br />

Fig. 9.47 Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, USA. Built 1940,<br />

volume 18 240 m 3 , 2839 seats, RT = 1.5 s. Plans and long<br />

section (after [9.3])<br />

10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90<br />

(ft)<br />

5 0 10 20 30 (m)<br />

Seating capacity 2218 + 120 chorus<br />

and the directed reflection sequence (DRS). Both are<br />

arena-shaped with the possibility of the audience being<br />

placed all around the orchestra platform. Even more than<br />

the fan shape, this causes the audience <strong>to</strong> come closer<br />

<strong>to</strong> the orchestra for the sake of intimacy. However, both<br />

designs are primarily relevant for larger halls, say more<br />

than 1500 seats. For halls seating more than about 2000,<br />

these designs may even be more successful than the<br />

classical rectangular shape, which, with so many seats,<br />

possess a risk of some listeners being placed <strong>to</strong>o far from<br />

the stage.<br />

The first vineyard concert hall was the Philharmonie<br />

Berlin, shown in Fig. 9.48, which opened in 1963. This<br />

hall has no balconies. Instead, the seating area is subdivided<br />

in<strong>to</strong> terraces elevated relative <strong>to</strong> each other,<br />

whereby the terrace fronts and sides can act as local<br />

reflec<strong>to</strong>rs for specific seating areas. By careful design of<br />

these terraces, it is possible <strong>to</strong> provide plenty of early,<br />

and even lateral, reflections <strong>to</strong> most of the seats in an<br />

arena-shaped hall. With no seats being overhung by balconies,<br />

a large absorptive area is exposed <strong>to</strong> the sound,<br />

whereby a generous volume per seat is recommended.<br />

Thus, in the Sapporo Concert Hall in Japan (1997) as<br />

well as in the new Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen,<br />

the volume per seat is about 14 m 3 .Thisisaquite<br />

high value for concert halls, as a 2 s T value should<br />

normally be obtained with just 10 m 3 per seat.<br />

In directed reflection sequence halls such as the<br />

Christchurch Town Hall shown in Fig. 9.49, mos<strong>to</strong>f<br />

the early reflections are provided by huge, suspended<br />

and tilted reflec<strong>to</strong>rs. These are distinctly separate from<br />

Fig. 9.48 Plan and section of Philharmonie Berlin, Germany. (Built 1963, 2335 seats, V = 21 000 m 3 , T = 2.1s)<br />

Acoustician: Lothar Cremer (after [9.3])

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