FOREST THEATRECARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
FOREST THEATER FOUNDATION
PRE-DESIGN STUDY
MAY 7, 2007
R. F. McCANN & COMPANY ARCHITECTS
DESIGNING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SINCE 1976
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1: MEADOW LAND CONCEPT & PERIMETER PARKING
SECTION 2: AUDIENCE/VISITOR CENTER
SECTION 3: THEATER/MAINSTAGE/SEATING/SCHOOL
SECTION 4: PHASING/COSTS/VISION
SECTION 5: FIRM QUALIFICATIONS
OUR VISION for an Improved Community Theater
A collaborated effort...
Forest Theater Foundation
R.F. McCann & Company Architects
DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOMODATIONS on site
- Audience Centered-Multi-Pavilion Complex
SOUND PROPAGATION beyond surrounding edges of the Forest Theater Park
PATRON COMFORT
Including Seating, Sightlines & Paths-of-Travel
ACTOR ACCOMODATIONS on the Mainstage
ACCOMODATIONS UNDER the MAINSTAGE for the Childrens’ Experimental Theater (CET)
ORCHESTRA PIT & PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
Accommodations
STUDY OVERVIEWThe pages following this overview are an “accumulation” of criteria to be used as the basis for rehabilitation design of the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Pre-design for the Forest Theater considers information and operating requirements along with planning and visual imagery. Meetings and discussions with the Forest Theater Foundation have been an opportunity to focus on the role of the Forest Theater as a modern venue for entertainment and performance. Equally importance to performance has been consideration of the future of the Forest Theater as open space and as a natural habitat within the City.
The Pre-Design effort takes into account that audiences and performers have achieved and matured during the past century, far out-distancing the original audiences and users of the theater at the time of its beginning. And so, demands of performing arts redefine the size and scope of necessary adaptive rehabilitation.
R.F. McCann & Company Architects wishes to steward the process of defining a combination of facilities and identities for the Forest Theater - not dictating, but rather from listening and filtering information. The resulting model serves as a basis for adaptive rehabilitation and necessary additions and alterations.
A set of elements has been identified for continuing on to the next phase. Schematic design that is based on Pre-Design, but with specific emphasis on visual impacts of materials, scale and size of new components when added into the existing setting. Further attention is needed to botanical and biological health of plantings, trees and all features of the natural setting.
Four components make up the Sections of the Pre-Design that follow.
The Forest Theater Site as a Natural Habitat,
Parking Accommodations for Visitors and Attendees of Events,
Rest-Room Accommodations and Event Related Ticket and Concession Sales,
Theater Production Capabilities and Features.
Costs per square foot from completed projects by RFM have been adjusted for location and escalation based on cost indices of Engineering News Record to provide preliminary cost information for implementing Pre-Design concepts. A summary of costs is shown in Section-5.
When reviewing space, systems and equipment recommendations it should be kept in mind that verification of proposed building square footage requirements, soil and footing conditions of the site, and desired design composition all significantly impact cost.
FOREST THEATER & GROUNDSMASTER PLAN PROGRAM ELEMENTS
FOREST THEATER SITE PLAN
IMMEDIATE AISLE SEATING FORM
2 comments:
On the one hand the Forest Theater Foundation and mayor say they want resident input to craft their plan, on the other hand their actions do not support their rhetoric. For instance, this study was done in May 2007, but it was not made available to the public to study, reflect upon and be ready to come to the council meeting with cogent comments until the council meeting in May 2008, a year later. So what is it, do they want input or do they want the public to rubberstamp whatever plan they envision for the Forest Theater?
I do not approve of Gerard & Sue making it appear as if "we" have been talking an talking and discussing and discussing the upgrading of the Forest Theater for a long time. "We" definitely have not been talking about it because the city buried the Congleton study in 2001 and failed to act on its recommendations for seven long years.
Thank you for publishing the McCann study. I look forward to reading it. Maybe something positive can even come out of it.
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