DG-1110-3-119
Design Guide: Band Training Facilities
March 1983
Illustrative Designs
Figure 6-1. New 45 Person Band Facility - Perspective Sketch
-Main Rehearsal, Large and Small Group Practice - are kept
The Main Rehearsal Room has direct access through a
separate from each other, for sound isolation. The individ-
recessed double door from the Lobby, for band personnel
ual Instrument Locker area is central to the facility, very
and visitors. Another double door is convenient to the
convenient to the Toilets/Lockers/Showers, Day Area,
Storage Room and Loading Dock, to accommodate large
Individual Practice Rooms, and easily accessible to the
instruments and equipment. The space provides the band
Library and all the large music rooms. Unit Supply/ Stor-
leader with direct visual contact with the adjacent Record-
age area is immediately adjacent to the Main Rehearsal
ing/Audio Control Booth. Glazing at the main room doors
Room, Large Practice Rooms and Loading Dock, for easy
permits views in for visitors in the Lobby. Movable curtains
equipment movement. And the CQ desk has excellent over-
and a mix of absorptive and reflective surfaces on the
view of the Main Entrance, Individual Instrument Lockers,
ceiling provide appropriate sound diffusion and adjustable
Day Area, Service Entrance and doors to the Unit Supply/
"liveness" of sound for best room acoustics. Some or
Storage rooms.
all of the wall treatments could be fixed.
1. Main Rehearsal Room. This most important space in
2. Group Practice Rooms. One Group Practice Room
the Band Training Facility is large enough to accommod-
is designed to accommodate a second Stage Band prac-
ate the entire band at once, plus visitors and the large
ticing simultaneously with another in the Main Rehearsal
instruments and equipment which often are left set up there,
Room on the other side of the Audio Control Booth. The
and still permit movement to alternative configurations
second Group Practice Room is large enough for 8-to-12-
for different rehearsal and recording situations. The walls
member groups. As in the Main Rehearsal Room, the walls
are non-parallel, to avoid flutter and to help diffusion. The
are non-parallel and the roofs tall (average 15 to 18 feet)
high ceiling, averaging at least 20 feet, relieves loudness
for acoustic reasons. The Large Group Practice Room has
and generally helps room acoustics. The tall roof also
adjustable curtains and mixed surface materials for vari-
presents a visible image for this focal space.
able room acoustics, while the smaller room has fixed
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