Illustrative Designs
Figure 6 - 24 Fort East: Renovated Local Troop
Center-Section
(3) Alternative Specialized Activities. The
and information board, which acts as a buffer zone for
music/performance wing of the Fort East renovated local
the active games area nearby.
troop center could easily be programmed for other spe-
The two branches of the "L" are at the lower floor level,
cialized activities, if the needs of the post change. The
with ramped connections. One branch (see figure 6 - 23)
roughly 12,000 - square-foot space could accommodate
has an active games area for billiards and table tennis
a small gymnasium, branch library, arts and crafts
under a raised coffered ceiling (see figure 6 - 24) with a
center, or dinner theatre. Sketch designs for these
greenhouse/window-seat extension, three multipurpose
options are illustrated in Figures 6 - 25 through 6 - 28,
club/meeting rooms with high clerestory windows to light
as variants of the basic design described above. Most of
their interior areas (one equipped as a music listening
the alternatives require some modifications to the consol-
room), a pantry/kitchen along the connecting corridor (for
idated part of the center, to accommodate the music
snacks and serving for functions) and an intimate lounge
practice rooms in place of either the crafts area or the
facing an existing fieldstone fireplace with visual and
meeting rooms. These designs are included to suggest
acoustic privacy provided by high banquettes, and racks
the range of space-use flexibility which should be applied
for periodicals, recreational reading, and paperback trad-
in considering renovation of existing structures.
ing. The other branch of the "L" includes a snack bar
and kitchen run by the post exchange with a greenhouse
seating space extending out into the forecourt, a reces-
sive television lounge, a glazed but acoustically sepa-
rated electronic games area, and a small general crafts
shop and photography lab, entered through a shared
buffer space with one wall of the crafts space glazed for
observability from the snack area.
The music/performance wing functions independently
and is identifiably separate from outside and in. Its
entrance has doors for control and acoustical separation,
but is visible from the central CAC control desk. The
performance function also shares use of toilets and sup-
port facilities, and can benefit from the adjacent lounge
and snack spaces. This wing includes a mainstage with
cyclorama, open wings, adjacent workshops, two-level
dressing area, storage and outside access; a 300 - per-
son seating area with movable seatwagons on a flat floor
to permit theatre-in-the-round or proscenium perform-
ances, and a second-level balcony taking advantage of
the height of the existing ballroom space; three large,
and eight small practice rooms, with glazed walls, acous-
tically separated from the large theatre space; and a
large instrument check-out storage area, just behind and
operated from the main CAC control desk, which is usa-
ble when the rest of the music/performance wing is
closed.
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