Newman Student Award Fund’s 2022 Student Design Competition

The Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics with support from the Robert Bradford Newman Student Award Fund (http://www.newmanfund.org/) and The Wenger Foundation, is sponsoring a student design competition to be judged as part of the 183rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 5-9 December 7-11, 2022. The Student Design Competition is intended to encourage students in the disciplines of Architecture, Engineering, Physics, and other curriculums that involve building design and/or acoustics to express their knowledge of architectural acoustics and noise control in a schematic design of a facility in which acoustical considerations are of primary importance.

Design Scenario

A regional drama theatre company intends to construct a new 700-seat, end stage theatre to accommodate dramatic and musical performances. The facility will include a pit for up to 15 musicians for musicals. In additional to the theatre Company’s performances, they will also rent their facility on dark days. The rental events may use the lobby and/or the theatre spaces. The building will include a rehearsal room of the same area as the stage play area. one the size of the stage, and a second smaller room for scene work. The site for the center is relatively flat and it is located approximately 200 feet from a major 6-lane highway.