RFI - Attachment 3 - Proposal Plans Performing Arts Centre (2) · MCU23/0096

FACT SHEET
ARCHITECT: - Diamond Architects
COMPLETE: 2011
BUILDING AREA: 4957m2 (PAC only)
MAIN AUDITORIUM
Seating capacity: 600 seats
Single rake - RETRACTABLE SEATING
Stage: 11.7m x 26m -
12.4m - 20m adjustable proscenium
Orchestra Pit and elevator: 4m apron
Stage Loft - half height fly tower 11m height
Floor Areas
Main Auditorium: 468m2
BOH: Basement 2no dressing rooms/stores

Associated Areas Within Building:
The theatre and performance hall at Matthew Flinders Anglican College in Buderim,
Queensland is a multi-functional space serving both the College and the wider
community.

Designed by Diamond Architects, the building accommodates 600 for drama
performance, can be adapted to accommodate 1300 students for a school assembly
or seat 500 at tables for dining. The complex incorporates a main auditorium, a dance
studio, café and bar areas, uniform and bookshop, commercial kitchen and tuck shop.
The brief was for a very flexible space to suit competing demands within the College.
They adopted a flexible flat floor model for the theatre design. The auditorium and
stage are at the one level with an orchestra lift that can be also used at auditorium
level. Retractable seating units are stored on the rear wall to leave the whole
auditorium, orchestra pit and stage areas useable as a very large flat floor for exams,
dinners, cabaret and exhibitions.

Retractable seating is in two banks, the main seating bank and an additional seating
bank which is used on the lowered orchestra pit lift when it is not required for drama.
The proscenium opening is adjustable with a manually operated dual slider panel
system giving a proscenium opening variable from 12m up to 20m depending on
production styles.

The deep stage has very generous wing space and resilience for dance. Overhead
there is a system of lighting catwalks across the stage linked to wide side catwalks
which link to perimeter catwalks in the auditorium, which has two lighting catwalks the
full width of the auditorium




Matthew Flinders Anglican College, QLD - 600 Seat (Retractable)