PUBLIC AUDITORIUM

The history of auditorium charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment and theatrical or performative elements in other activities. The auditorium is primarily concerned with the origin and subsequent development of the theatre as an autonomous activity. An auditorium includes any room intended for listening to music, including theaters, churches, music halls, classrooms, and meeting halls. The design of various types of auditoriums has become a complex problem in contemporary times, because in addition to its various sometimes conflicting, aesthetics, functional, technical, artistic and economical requirements, an auditorium often has to accommodate an unprecedentedly large audience. These are nowadays being used as multipurpose rooms in almost every field, stating from a small school to official buildings. Hearing conditions in any auditorium are considerably affected by purely architectural considerations like - shape, dimensions and volume, layout of boundary surfaces, seating arrangements, audience capacity, surface treatment and materials used for interior-decoration. Seeing to the increasing use of auditoriums in present scenario, the design problem is focused to multipurpose public auditorium. A grand auditorium is proposed to be in the capital of each states in the country to exhibit the cultural proposed to be programmes of their state and for the organisation of functions. But there is no any large/glorious auditorium available in the Chhattisgarh state for cultural programme and function; hence it is a proposed to construct a grand auditorium in the memory of great freedom fighter, thinker and public leader of the country Late Shyam Prasad, by the state government. This auditorium is to be established in the capital of Chhattisgarh, and will be utilized for national and state-level cultural programmes and meetings etc. The seating areas of an auditorium, the stage and backstage facilities, shall be provided with safe and convenient access for all people including persons with a disability. The auditorium, the stage, backstage facilities, changing rooms, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, rest rooms, toilets and shower rooms shall be accessible to wheelchair users. If there is an access

connecting two or more of them, an equivalent accessible route shall be provided for wheelchair users. A minimum of four wheelchair spaces shall be provided at spectator level in the

auditorium with not more than 800 fixed seats. For auditorium with more than 800 fixed seats at spectator level, two wheelchair spaces shall be provided for every 400 fixed seats and any part thereof. (For example, at least six wheelchair spaces shall be provided if there are 900 fixed seats.) The spaces shall be grouped in pairs (not less than two) and also not separated from the seats for other audiences. Each wheelchair space shall have unobstructed line of vision to the stage areas at which the relevant activity takes place, and be of minimum size of 800 mm x 1300 mm, with the side of 800 mm facing towards the stage podium or screen. The minimum width of the passage leading to a wheelchair space from an accessible entrance of the auditorium shall not be less than 1500 mm. Readily removable seats can be installed in wheelchair spaces when the spaces are not occupied by wheelchair users.

Area Requirements Auditorium Entrance Lounge Ticketing counters VIP lounge VIP restroom General Toilet 1200 capacity (3.5 cu.m per person minimum) 750 sq.m 25 sq.m 200 sq.m( Including toilet) 25 +25 sq.m(Atc. Toilet) as per statndards

Administration: Managers cabin Office Light and sound Projector room Broadcasting room 25 sq.m(Atc. Toilet) 25 sq.m 20 sq.m 15 sq.m 15 sq.m

Recording room Translation room Green room Stage Rehearsal room

15 sq.m 8 sq.m 50+50+50+50 sq.m(Two Atc toilet 8 +8 sq.m) 250 sq. m 300 sq.m 100 sq. m 20 sq. m 30 sq.m 40 cars,70 two wheelers, Auto / taxi dropand pickup point

Back stage operations Electrical room Store room Parking -

Note: Refer appendix I and II for services/bye laws/barrier free design