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Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia1
Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia2
Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia3
Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia4
Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia5

Teatro Sociale, Sondrio, Italy

Object Type
Theatres

Client
Comune di Sondrio

Architects
Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia

Room volume
3200

Seats
584

Completion
2015

Expertises
Room Acoustics
Building Acoustics

The Teatro Sociale, constucted in 1824 as an Italian tiered theater, was destroyed during World War II. Later on, in the 1950s, it suffered the same fate as many Italian theaters: it was converted into the municipal movie theater, and in 2001, it was finally closed for safety reasons. On the initiative of the municipal authorities, this deep sleep ended with the start of new planning activities in 2010. Under today‘s stalls area, the demolition works brought to light the remains of the original tiered theater which were impressively well preserved. During the refurbishment of the current auditorium, the planners had an extensive freedom of design, now resulting in perfect acoustics and ideally suitable stage technology installations.

The existing rectangular auditorium provided good acoustic conditions for the new theater design. Nowadays, the raked stalls area and balconies ensure a very good direct sound transmission and sightlines to the stage. In the course of the reconstruction, the balcony was reduced by two rows of seats for shortening the soffit above the rear rows of seats in the stalls area. Due to this measure combined with a perfectly curved ceiling and an optimized geometry of the auditorium rear wall under the balcony, there is a good sound transmission even for the rearmost rows of seats in the stalls area. The walls with their cherry wood panels and the plaster ceiling ensure favorable sound reflections as well as the perfect reverberation.

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1 Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia
2 Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia
3 Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia
4 Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia
5 Studio Berlucchi S.r.l., Brescia

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