DG-1110-3-119
Design Guide: Band Training Facilities
March 1983
Architectural Programming
Cleaning
Loading/
Performance
Figure 2-10. Spaces and Relationships for Army Band Training Facilities.
4. Site Access. The site configuration and relationships to
as day areas and showers. However, potential problems
access roads should readily permit design of good, sepa-
exist in security control of access doors, and in sound
rate patterns for the multiple access needs of the band
transmission and interference between the two function-
facility. This should include service access to the loading
areas.
dock and mechanical space distinctly separate from the
3. Inappropriate Proximities. The site for the band
main entrance, preferably to the side or rear of the building.
facility must be quiet, located away from truck routes,
The parking area access should also be separate. The
heavy equipment operations, runways and flight paths, and
potential should exist for the provision of a car/bus dropoff
helicopter landing areas. The outdoor practice field must
space at the main entrance.
not be located between closely spaced buildings, espe-
cially with facing parallel walls, to avoid echoes which
5. Topography. The topography of the site should be easy
make hearing and practice difficult. Functions in buildings
to develop at minimum cost, with no extraordinary require-
ments for foundations or drainage. Slopes in the building
adjacent to the Band Training Facility should not be those
which would be disturbed by outdoor practice or perfor-
area and the surrounding outdoor activity spaces should
mance noise.
not require expensive grading and site preparation, or
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