Facility Programming
(3) Music. The Main Post Center should include a
housing and activities. Whatever child development facil-
ities are provided, they must include indoor and outdoor
number of small practice rooms, larger rooms for jam
sessions and small performances, large and small per-
spaces for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and schoolage
formance halls, an instrument checkout and storage
children.
area, as well as support spaces such as backstage,
(11)
Commissary. The commissary is a primary facil-
lounge, and vending areas.
ity in the Main Post Center. It attracts a major clientele
(4) Drama. Drama activities may share performance
for the Center, thereby providing exposure to and
encouraging use of the other facilities. The commissary
spaces, or be programmed as separate theater facilities,
should be accompanied by other related commercial
which include flexible performance space, rehearsal
facilities.
rooms, workshop/storage area, dressing rooms, and
green room.
(12) Exchange Facilities. The exchange facilities at
Library. The Main Post Center may be the location
(5)
the Main Post Center should include most of the other
central commercial functions on the post. These include
for the main post library, if it is not located elsewhere to
main retail stores, amusement center, movie theatre,
be more convenient to the post administrative and edu-
gasoline station, car wash, cafeteria, laundry, barber
cational functions. Even a branch library at this location
shop, tailor, repair shops and other service outlets. As
should include a large stack area, periodicals area, cata-
with the commissary, these are critical attractors and
log of the entire post collection, reading area, and staff
activity generators.
work space.
(6) Physical Fitness. Physical fitness facilities are
(13) Other Non-MSA Functions. Other facilities possi-
major attractions and generate activity for the whole
bly located at the Main Post Center include the following:
Center. They are heavily used by both troops and fami-
Open Messes (or Clubs) for enlisted personnel, non-
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lies, and should include a large gymnasium, indoor swim-
commissioned officers, and officers - usually self-con-
ming pool, handball/racquetball courts, exercise rooms,
tained and detached from other activities, separation may
saunas and necessary support facilities.
be to the advantage of both the clubs and the CAC.
Outdoor Sports. Often it is not possible to provide
(7)
Package Liquor Store - a useful retail addition to the
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playing courts and fields for outdoor sports at a Main
Main Post Center, like the exchange facilities.
Post Center, due to the density of building. However,
Post Office, banks, credit union, restaurants, and the
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where possible, it is desirable to include tennis courts, a
thrift shop - appropriate service components of the Main
playing field, basketball courts, and their related support
Post Center that combine well with the commercial and
and equipment storage facilities. Central administrative
activity mix.
and support facilities for other outdoor sports, such as
Chapel and Religious Education - typically preferred
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golf, swimming and team sports, might be located here,
as separate, independent operations; co-location at the
although they may function better at a separate compre-
Main Post Center would produce little mutual benefit,
hensive post sports complex.
except at very small posts where the chapel functions
(8)
Auto Crafts. An Auto Crafts facility may be
could share meeting spaces with other activities.
programmed at a Main Post Center. This is an actively
Army Community Services Center - may or may not
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used facility and would be a user attraction. However,
be appropriate at the Main Post Center, depending on
design and post-wide service pattern. The users of the
it should be in a separate, visually screened structure. It
human services programs desire shielding from exces-
requires good vehicular and service access, and large
sive exposure which argues for a separate site; however,
parking and outdoor service space.
convenient access and availability of ACS would benefit
from co-location.
Bowling. This is another important activity genera-
(9)
tor that will yield mutual exposure, interaction and shar-
ing benefits with other functions located together at the
Main Post Center.
(10) Child Development. Child development facilities
may or may not be located at the Main Post Center.
This depends on development of a post-wide pattern
which provides all three major components - full day
care, part day and hourly care - adequately on the instal-
lation. The provision of hourly care at the Main Post
Center would permit greater use of the other functions by
families. Full and part day care must be conveniently
located for the families; whether they should be in the
Main Post Center depends on its relationship to family
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