The document discusses the influence of auditorium size and shape on acoustics, highlighting that larger auditoriums can present volume challenges while smaller rooms allow for clearer sound. It emphasizes the importance of splayed side walls for better seating capacity and sound reflection. Additionally, it outlines considerations for ceiling design to avoid sound issues such as flutter echo and to ensure effective sound distribution throughout the hall.
The document discusses the influence of auditorium size and shape on acoustics, highlighting that larger auditoriums can present volume challenges while smaller rooms allow for clearer sound. It emphasizes the importance of splayed side walls for better seating capacity and sound reflection. Additionally, it outlines considerations for ceiling design to avoid sound issues such as flutter echo and to ensure effective sound distribution throughout the hall.
The document discusses the influence of auditorium size and shape on acoustics, highlighting that larger auditoriums can present volume challenges while smaller rooms allow for clearer sound. It emphasizes the importance of splayed side walls for better seating capacity and sound reflection. Additionally, it outlines considerations for ceiling design to avoid sound issues such as flutter echo and to ensure effective sound distribution throughout the hall.
The document discusses the influence of auditorium size and shape on acoustics, highlighting that larger auditoriums can present volume challenges while smaller rooms allow for clearer sound. It emphasizes the importance of splayed side walls for better seating capacity and sound reflection. Additionally, it outlines considerations for ceiling design to avoid sound issues such as flutter echo and to ensure effective sound distribution throughout the hall.
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INTERNAL CONNECTIVITY
1. Size of the Auditorium
•In any room, size has an important influence on acoustics. Size includes the length, width and height of the room. Larger and smaller auditoriums come with their own acoustical advantages. •For instance, a small room generally won’t allow music to ring out at richly as it will in a large room. When it comes to volume, you’ll have an easier time getting the whole audience to hear clearly in a small room, while a larger auditorium can pose some volume challenges. This is why you need the other aspects of a large room to contribute to good acoustics and why you need a quality sound system.
2.ROOM SHAPE •For greater seating capacity, the side walls should be splayed from the stage. •Splayed side walls allow greater seating area that is relatively close to the stage. •The splayed walls can usefully reflect sound energy to the rear of the hall. •A side-wall splay may range from 30° to 60°, the latter is considered a maximum angle, given the directionality of speech. •Generally, fan-shaped halls are not used for music performance. CEILING •In some cases, clouds are made absorptive, to avoid late reflections. •To avoid potential flutter echo, a smooth ceiling should not be parallel to the floor. •In many halls, the ceiling geometry itself is designed to direct sound to the rear of the hall, or to diffuse it throughout the hall. •Concave surfaces such as domes, barreled ceilings, and cylindrical arches should be avoided because of the undesirable sound foci they create. •In many large halls, ceiling reflectors, sometimes called clouds, are used to direct sound energy from the stage to the seating area. •When ceilings are high, care must be taken to ensure that path-length differences between direct and reflected sound are not too great, and particularly should not exceed 20 msec.
