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Dave Macaulay
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Posts: 2321
From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 02-22-2008 09:26 AM
The building dictates the floor plan to a large extent. Your question about raising seats - you have either a flat floor and a raised screen so sightlines work out(theatre seats are all the same height off the floor, within an inch or so), a sloped floor (the seats have the floor angle built in to the "legs"), or stadium seating with the seats on a series of wide steps. So for either sloped or stepped floor, the back of the auditorium is higher than the screen end. That means either an excavated screen end or raised back end. You need to consider accoustics as well. The ceilings and dividing walls need to be designed to limit sound pollution between adjoining cinemas. There's no set plan! Local considerations abound - laws and such dictating fire resistance of walls, aisle widths, number of seats between rows, number and location of emergency exits, number or toilets required, handicapped access... a million things. A local architect who knows about this stuff is vital.
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