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Outdoor Performance Spaces. Architectural Acoustics II April 10, 2008. Design Challenges. Large audience size Sufficient level for all seats Sightlines Lack of reflecting surfaces Envelopment Intimacy Noise control Nearby noise sources Disturbing the neighbors. Examples. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Outdoor Performance Spaces
Architectural Acoustics II
April 10, 2008
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Design Challenges
• Large audience size Sufficient level for all seats Sightlines
• Lack of reflecting surfaces Envelopment Intimacy
• Noise control Nearby noise sources Disturbing the neighbors
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Examples
• Koussevitzky Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox MA
• Benedict Music Tent, Aspen CO
• Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox MA
• Pritzker Music Pavilion, Chicago IL
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Koussevitzky Music Shed• Opened in 1938, re-opened in 1959 after an
acoustical renovation• Design Team
Original Architects: Joseph Franz and Eliel Saarinen Renovation Architect: Eero Saarinen and Associates Renovation Acoustician: Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
• 5120 covered seats and lawn seating for an additional 10000
• Construction 3/4” fiberboard walls Packed dirt floor 0.5” plywood stage enclosure with “randomly and heavily
braced” 0.5” plywood canopy No padding on the seats
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/images/upload/images/337_Tanglewood_1.jpg
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
L. Beranek, “Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound”
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/massachusetts/berkshires/tanglewood/index.htm
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
http://haydnphil.org/images/newsletter/musicshed.jpg
The canopy is 50% open to provide early reflections to the musicians and audience and to allow sufficient energy into the upper volume to develop reverberation.
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
F. Johnson et al., “Orchestra Enclosure and Canopy for the Tanglewood Music Shed,” JASA 33 (4), pp. 475 – 481, 1961.
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
L. Beranek, “Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound”
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
L. Beranek, “Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound”
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
F. Johnson et al., “Orchestra Enclosure and Canopy for the Tanglewood Music Shed,” JASA 33 (4), pp. 475 – 481, 1961.
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Koussevitzky Music Shed• “It is the only place that houses a very large audience,
5121 listeners, under acoustical conditions that rival the best in America.”
• “Even though the sides of the Shed are open to a height of about 15 feet, the reverberation behaves like that in a regular auditorium.”
• “It has been suggested that the optimum reverberation time, 1.9 sec at mid-frequencies, fully occupied, and the BR (1.45, ‘far greater than Boston’s 1.03’) so enhance the effectiveness of this type of canopy that lateral reflections are not necessary to give a feeling of spaciousness.
L. Beranek, “Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound”
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Koussevitzky Music Shed
F. Johnson et al., “Orchestra Enclosure and Canopy for the Tanglewood Music Shed,” JASA 33 (4), pp. 475 – 481, 1961.
• “The partially open lower side and rear walls are, acoustically, equivalent to people seated on stadium seats at the edge of the actual audience.”
• “One has to move almost 1500 feet from the Shed to lose the sense of the music”
• “Most people, on first hearing, are convinced that an elaborate system of electrical amplification has been installed, but in actual fact there is not a single speaker in the hall.”
• “… if one attempted to provide music for 6000 to 12000 listeners in a narrow rectangular hall, the visual problem and the decrease in loudness at the rear would be intolerable.”
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Benedict Music Tent
• Opened Summer 2000• Design Team
Architect: Harry Teague Architects Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates Theater Consultant: Auerbach + Associates
• 2050 covered seats + additional lawn seating• Construction
Concert-hall-like stage enclosure Tensioned membrane roof over most of the audience Solid disc ceiling over the center of the audience Canvas reflectors
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Benedict Music Tent
Images courtesy of Harry Teague Architects
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Benedict Music Tent
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Benedict Music Tent
Spray-coated canvas reflector with steel frame
Retractable Fabrisorb banners
Corridors
Recording Studio
Dressing Room
Image courtesy of Kirkegaard Associates
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Benedict Music Tent
• Stage-Area Construction 12-inch grout-filled masonry walls with wood finish directly applied Resiliently supported plywood and tongue-and-groove wood floor over
concrete 4-inch thick tongue-and-groove wood ceiling Canvas reflectors
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Benedict Music Tent
• Stage-Area Construction 12-inch grout-filled masonry walls with wood finish directly applied Resiliently supported plywood and tongue-and-groove wood floor over
concrete 4-inch thick tongue-and-groove wood ceiling Canvas reflectors
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Benedict Music TentCanvas reflectors at rear and sides of audience area
Retractable absorptive banners
Operable louversClosed OpenImages courtesy of Kirkegaard Associates
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Benedict Music Tent
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Benedict Music Tent
Image courtesy of Harry Teague Architects
Data from Hoffman et al., “Halls for Music Performance,” and courtesy of Kirkegaard Assoc.
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Benedict Music Tent
http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/images/uploads/Benedict_Music_Tent.jpg
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
• Opened July 1994
• Design Team Architect: William Rawn Associates Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates Theater Consultant: Theatre Projects Consultants
• 1180 seats inside, lawn seating for ~3000
• Interesting audio system for lawn seats (details shortly)
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
Image courtesy of Kirkegaard AssociatesImage courtesy of Theatre Projects Consultants
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
http://www.kathymccurdy.com/DSCN6389.JPGhttp://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/massachusetts/berkshires/
tanglewood/index.htm
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
Image courtesy of Kirkegaard AssociatesImage courtesy of Theatre Projects Consultants
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
Quote from www.kirkegaard.com
The rear wall of the facility opens to allow patrons seated on the lawn to experience performances through a state-of-the-art sound system. This system uses a sophisticated microphone array to pick up natural sound within the hall, then broadcasts this same sound through a digital delay to speaker columns located in corresponding locations on the main lawn. When combined with a precedence loudspeaker source mounted above the rear opening wall, the system gives a startlingly realistic effect. The natural sound of the concert hall is effortlessly extended to reach the 3000-plus patrons on the lawn.
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
Image courtesy of Kirkegaard Associates
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A Few Others
Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park Cary, NC (www.kirkegaard.com)
Blockbuster Desert Sky PavilionPhoenix, Arizona
(www.jaffeholden.com)
And now Pritzker…
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A Few Others
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga, NY
(http://www.rlorelli.com/Project%20Photos/SaratogaPAC-1.jpg)
And now Pritzker…
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/06/24/arts/24sara.ready.html