Seats as acoustic elements: Empty and full the same

A close-up of a row of theater seats. The seat surface is a flip-up soft pad, and the thickness of the fabric on the seat back and seat surface is similar to that of a human body. The bottom of the seat also has sound-absorbing treatment when the seat surface is flipped up. This ensures that the reverberation difference between an empty house for rehearsal and a full house for performance is not too great. The spacing between chairs is consistent. Avoid: using hard plastic or wooden seat surfaces, exposing a hard board when the seat surface is flipped up, making the seats as thick and soft as sofas, ignoring the impact of seat back height on the view of the back row.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一排劇院座椅的近景。椅面是可翻起的軟包,椅背與椅面的織品厚度與人體接近,椅面翻起時底部同樣有吸音的處理。這樣空場排練與滿場演出的殘響差異才不會太大。椅子之間的間距一致。避免:使用硬質塑膠或木質的座面、椅面翻起後露出硬板、把座椅做成沙發般的厚軟、忽略椅背高度對後排視線的影響。