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The following points should be observed in the design of the open-
air theatre:
The site should be away from industrial or community noise.

The noise level on the site should not exceed 40 db. and
occasional disturbance exceeding this value should not occur
more than once in an hour.
The theatre should preferably be constructed in sound shadow
cast by hill, an embankment across any noisy zones.
The prevailing wind direction should not be from the noisy
zone towards the theatre but away from it.
Tall trees must form the rear boundary of the theatre as they are very useful in absorbing
external noise and preventing delayed sound reflections inside the theatre which otherwise
cause echoes.
The floor should be properly graded, to give good visibility and audibility to all the rows of the
listeners
The slope of the floor should be towards the stage and it should be about 12 to 15 degrees to
the horizontal.
The shape of the theatre should be such that most of the audience
is drawn close to the stage.
A semi-circular shape admirably satisfies this condition but it does
not suite to the directional properties of the sound.
 To have satisfactory sound levels at all the places a fan shape
theatre is considered good, particularly when the stage walls and
proscenium reinforcement cause the sound levels at the remote
places by reflection.
The direction of the prevailing winds must be from the stage towards the audience
The stage walls and ceilings must be designed to obtain maximum throw and diffusion of sound
towards remote places.
The back wall of the stage must be vertical, with plane or convex corrugation for the reflection.
The sidewalls should be splayed outwards to avoid fluttering of sound and to obtain beneficial
reflection.
The sound intensity drops off as the inverse square of the distance. The side walls are also
provide with corrugations. The stage ceiling should slope upwards so as to arrest and throw
the outgoing sound onto the audience.
The capacity of the open-air theatre should not exceed about 600 persons if they are to hear
clearly and the performers are to speak without strain.
However with adequate sound amplification the theatre may accommodate about 200
persons.
The area of the theatre excluding the stage may be calculated at the rate of 0.8to 1sqm per
person, including gangways.
If the seats are so staggered that every seat is displaced sideways from one in front by half the
width of the seat, the area provided should be about 1 to 1.20 sqm per person.
Sound absorption by the audience, unoccupied seats and the air must be taken into account
into the design.
Factors such as humidity, temperature, fog and the wind velocity, which affect the sound
transmission, must be considered
Ansal plaza
• PROJECT NAME- ANSAL PLAZA
• LOCATION – SOUTH DELHI
• SUB LOCATION- Andrews Ganj, Khel Gaon
• ARCHITECT-JASBEER SAWHNEY ASSO.
• TOTAL FLOORS-G+3
• SITE AREA – 4 ACRES
• BUILT UP AREA- 15000 Sq.m
• TYPE- RETAIL COMPLEX
• Parking – 700 basement car parking space
• Shopping Mall designed as a contemporary, air conditioned mall wrapped around a central
circular plaza.
• Ansal Plaza has three blocks — A, B and C — that house as many as 90 small and big outlets.
• The entrance courtyard of the mall is inspired from the colosseum in Rome and Mughal
architecture.
• The main feature is its Central Plaza 80meter in diameter, designed to be an inviting space which
includes the Open Air Theatre.
• Central public plaza acts as a focal point and make a visual connection along the radial axis
• Curved shape of the corridors reduces the length and creates a good visual sequence.
• Two C shape blocks are connected each other and large curtain walls on the outer always
connects the user to outer surroundings.
ANSAL PLAZA
PLANNING AND LAYOUT
-Introvert in nature
-C- shaped plan
CONNECTING BRIDGE
CURVED CORRIDOR STAIRS TO BASEMENT
TRIPLE HEIGHTED
SEGREGATED PLAZA ATRIUM
RETAIL STORES
B-BLOCK ENTRANCE
ANCHOR STORES SERVICE CORE
FIRE ESCAPE
HUDCO TOWER
ENTRANCE TO PLAZA
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN THIRD FLOOR PLAN
The semi-circular design indicates
the spherical propagation of sound,
and a desire that every member of an
audience should hear equally well
what is being intoned on stage .
Amphitheatre
Area:3000sqm
The acoustic advantages of a

stepped dish are only optimized
however when the speaker is
standing at the exact center stage;
only then will the voice propagate
symmetrically, and reflect back
from unoccupied areas to the same
point
The surrounding building blocks
and the landscaped area in the back
of the seating acts the embankment
to the amphitheater from the noise
coming from the surrounding area
View from inside
the ansal’s As such no backstage is Seating area
provided, the sound
appears to spread out
when no audience is
sitting and no extra
measures have been taken
to enhance the sound
propagation.
The small green areas are
provided around the
amphitheater which act as
a absorbers along the View towards the stage
colonnades (The stage with marble finish-
reflecting surface)
• The reverberation sound produced by
the reflecting surface of the glass is
absorbed by the porous finish of the
•And the colonnaded colonnades
feature around the
seating area, sound will
in this case bounces
back and forth between
the vertical seat rises ,
the colonnaded feature
and the surrounding
built forms Source of the
sound
Reflected Propagated
sound sound
Sound reflecting
from the glass
surface of the
building
Sound is absorbed by the

heavy landscaped area
(buffer zone)
The amphitheater is situated in a sound shadow area
casted by the surrounding shopping complex and also act as
sound barriers
 The glass provided around the amphitheater(on the

building facade) acts as the reflectors
 The shape of the theatre is such that most of the

audience is drawn close to the stage.
The colonnades surrounding the amphitheater are used
for three purposes:
(a)sound absorbers and reflectors (due to surface finish
material-porous red sandstone)
(b) placing of speakers and lights
(c) decoration at the time of event
The slope of the floor is towards

the stage and it is nearly about 12
to 15 degrees to the horizontal.
Feels almost horizontal
Varying
lights heights to
break the
path of
Placement of sound as
speakers required
Propagation of sound
towards the audience
The sound
prorogating from the
back is absorbed at
the ends by the
plants

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The following points should be observed in the design of the open-

The site should be away from industrial or community noise.

CURVED CORRIDOR STAIRS TO BASEMENT

ANCHOR STORES SERVICE CORE

The acoustic advantages of a

Sound is absorbed by the

 The glass provided around the amphitheater(on the

 The shape of the theatre is such that most of the

The slope of the floor is towards

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