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DESIGN FOR A COLLEGE AUDITORIUM

BY

LEONARD FRED STUEBE

THESIS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

IN ARCHITECTURE

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

PRESENTED JUNE 1903

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June 1, 1905 190

THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY

L10NAHD....F.RED STUEB.I.*. under tM....4ir.ectlpn^^^p Ternple,

sNTiTLED MSIM If OR A COLLEGE AUM TORIUM

IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE

OF Bachelor.,. Of;... So in Ar.cM.t.ecture,

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF. Architecture

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 A COLLEGE AUDITORIUM.

This thesis is a solution of a modern auditorium or assembly

hall to fulfill the conditions existing at the University of Illi-

nois, this description being accompanied by the following reddered

drawings:

1. iviain Aiaditorium Floor Plan.

2. Second Floor and Ceiling Plan.

3. Principal Elevation and Front.

4. Rear Elevation.

The drawings are all drawn to a uniform scale of one six-

teenth inch equals one foot on two sheets each 25" x 38",

At present the University has no such building upon it's

campus, though the need of one has long been greatly felt. There

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are at the present time about twenty four hundred local students

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and a general faculty of two hundred. The attendence is increas-

, ing at the rate of severe 1 huhdred each year.

The purposes of such a building and the uses it would fulfill

are somewhat varied. Here chapel would be held, and all University

Convocations f-nri affairs of a like nature where the students and

faculty and their friends would be present, such as enthusiasm nieet-

ings, class meetings, the annual Glee end Mandolin Club concert,
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the University Band concert, the annual plajrs presented by the Opera

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Club and the German Club, the various numbers of the Star Lecture
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course and the May Festival. For the latter event special- arrange-
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ments are necessary for the accomodation on the stage of a chorus
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of about two hundred and an orchestra of forty five or fifty. In

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this building would also be held the annual Commencement exercises

and the Alumni Banquet

The reojairement s for such a building were considered to be

as follows:

1. A main audience room which with tv;o galleries would

seat three thousand people,

2, A stage capable of seating a chorias of five hundred

and an orchestra of one hundred. This stage is not primarily/ in-

tended for theatrical presentations.

3, Ample stairways to galleries so arranged that they

cajn be emptied without congestion at any point.

4, A grand entrance vestibule of about 5,000 sc. ft.

5. Two ticket offices in connection with the vestibule.

6. An assembly room of 5,000 sq, ft. situated behind

the stage.

7.. Two smaller rooms of 1,000 sq. ft. each, near the

stage.

These last three rooms should be so arranged that they could

be conveniently used for holding small meetings.

8. A banquet hall of about 4,500 so. ft. with the neces-

sary coat and serving rooms in connection.

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9, Twenty individual dressing rooms each 8' x 10' in

size.

10, Four toilet rooms conveniently yet inconspicuously

located, tv/o being for the general public and tv'o convenient to

ftreseing rooms.

11, Ample storage for seats etc, necessary on the stage

when it is filled,

12, An orchestra pit in front of stage, conveniently

accessible for the musicians.

Easy communication should be provided bet-'veen the various

rooms behind the stage and the auditorium proper.

As will be seen by referring to the accompanying drawings,

the building is entered through three gra.nd triple entrances into

grand vestibule across which is the foyer containing the monumental

stairways to the galleries above. The main auditorium is s mi- cir-

cular in plan and contains a tier of six boxes on either aide of the

stage and is provided with two galleries. Besides the entrance

from the foyer there are large triple entrances with ar.ipie vesti-

bules on each side of the main auditorium. From each of these side

entrances are throvm off two stairways leading to the galleries a-

bovft.

The stage having an area of 6,0CG sq.ft. and capable of seat-

ing 600 people is also semi- circular in plan with a large room for

the storage of s^.ats etc. at either side. The orchestra pit is en-

tered from passages binder the stage which are reached by stairways
shown on each side of the stage.

Directly back of the stage is the large assembly hall with

one of the smaller waiting rooms on either side of it. Across the

passage leading to the rear entrances from each of these two last

mentioned rooms are the dressing rooms arranged in two tiers with a

stairway at one end and a toilet room at the other end of each tier.

The large banquet hall was placed on the second floor direct-

ly over the grand vestibule. The scheme shown on the plan was used

to keep the end windows on axis and still allow the accessory rooms

to be taken off one side. The banquet hall has in connection with

it, two toilpt end. coat rooms and tv;o serveing rooms.

Kasy and well lighted com.iiunication is provided between the

front and rear portions of the building around the auditorium proper,

and thrown off from this passage on each floor are two large, well-

lighted, public toilet rooms. At the rear ends of this passage at

the gallery levels is placed a janitor's room. •

The extreme length of the building including steps is 309

feet, the extreme \vidth. 111 feet.

The design contemplates a building which surpasses in size

and appointments any college building for similar use in America.

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