Auditorium Dimensions & Layout
Dimensions can get tricky, but a good rule of thumb is arranging the size of the auditorium around the type of performance and the number of audience members you plan to seat:
200 seats: 270m2 | 2,900 ft2
.
150 seats: 190m2 | 2,000 ft2
.
75 seats: 125 m2 | 1,350 ft2
.
How many square feet is an auditorium?
| Meeting / Lecture Room Names Room’s Square Footage Classroom Capacity | Auditorium C 1102 36pp | Auditorium A+B 3937 144pp | Auditorium B+C 3075 108pp | Auditorium A+B+C 5039 180pp |
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What is the size of an auditorium?
| Description Tenant Occupiable Areas Qty. Space Req’d. | Main Auditorium | Seating (300 seats) 1 3,600 | Stage 1 1,200 | Support Spaces |
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How is auditorium size calculated?
Six square feet per person
is a good rule of thumb for a standing crowd. If you are planning a cocktail hour for 100 people who will all be standing, you will multiply 100 by 6 to determine you need a venue with 600 square feet of available and workable space for the event.
What are the area requirements for an auditorium?
The amount of space required for each auditorium depends on a number of factors but the following guides, based on modern seating design can give you an idea of the area needed:
200 seats: 270m2 | 2,900 ft2
.
150 seats: 190m2 | 2,000 ft2
.
75 seats: 125 m2 | 1,350 ft2
.
What are the requirements of a good auditorium?
- The initial sound should be of adequate intensity.
- The sound should be evenly distributed throughout the hall.
- The successive nodes should be clear & distinct.
- Noise has to be taken care of.
- The size & the shape of the ball has also to be taken care.
How much does it cost to build a auditorium?
| Cost Estimate (Union Labor) % of Total Cost | Total $2,862,500 | Contractor Fees (GC,Overhead,Profit) 25% $715,600 | Architectural Fees 7% $250,500 | Total Building Cost $3,828,600 |
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How many square feet is 100 guests?
| CROWD SIZE, BY PERSON ESTIMATED SPACE NEEDS, SQUARE FEET | 75 450-2,625 | 100 600-3,500 | 125 750-4,375 | 150 900-5,250 |
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How is space capacity calculated?
Multiply your total square footage of usable space (80,000) by your facility’s clear height
to determine your warehouse’s storage capacity in cubic feet. Going with our example, if your building’s clear height is 25 feet, it has a total storage capacity of 2,000,000 cubic feet.
How do you calculate seating capacity?
Subtract the non-seating area from the total area of each dining room
. If your restaurant has more than one dining area, repeat Steps One through Three for each room and add the results together. This is the amount of space the entire restaurant has available for customer seating.
How tall is a stage?
For larger events it is not uncommon to have stages of
5′- 6′ (1.5m-2m) high from the floor
. Larger festival or stadium stages can be even higher. This is quite a distance to fall, especially when the venue floor can be hard concrete or stone.
What kinds of activities go on in an auditorium?
It is used for all types of formal assembly:
lectures, award ceremonies, dramatic plays, musical theatre productions, concert performances of orchestra, band, chorus, jazz band
, battles of the bands, dance competitions and so on. These varied events place a range of demands on the room.
Is auditorium a public space?
Auditorium,
the part of a public building where an audience sits
, as distinct from the stage, the area on which the performance or other object of the audience’s attention is presented.
What are the basic requirements of acoustically good hall?
- an appropriate reverberation time.
- uniform sound distribution.
- an appropriate sound level.
- an appropriately low background noise.
- no echo or flutter echo.
What is the most sound absorbing material?
In general,
soft, pliable, or porous materials (like cloths)
serve as good acoustic insulators – absorbing most sound, whereas dense, hard, impenetrable materials (such as metals) reflect most.
