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The Bartók National Concert Hall is located
in the Palace of Arts, in Budapest which opened in March 2005, and
provides local and visiting performing arts groups with a first-class
concert hall of 1800 seats. The Palace of Arts is part of the Millennium
Center Development complex, and also features a small theater and
museum (which was developed for the Hungarian government as a Public
Private Partnership). The Concert Hall is home to the Hungarian
National Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly hosts concerts
by the Budapest
Festival Orchestra.
A key element in Artec-designed auditoria is
adjustability. The Artec-designed adjustable seating elements, adjustable
acoustics systems, rigging, and production lighting systems, are
integral aspects of the Bartók National Concert Hall. They
provide flexibility of support for a large range of performance
types.
The orchestra platform of the concert hall is
designed to accommodate music ensembles of all sizes. The system
is composed of three platform lifts; each forestage lift can accommodate
mobile seating-wagons with permanently mounted, audience seats.
The system used to adjust the acoustics environment in the concert
hall is composed of four elements: the acoustic canopy, the acoustics
control chamber with its motorized doors, and the sound-absorptive
acoustic curtains and acoustic banners. These four motorized systems
are controlled by the prime machinery control system and are complemented
by a number of manually adjustable surfaces in the hall.
Artec provided Design and Planning services covering
Auditorium
Design, Facility
Planning, Specialized
Performance Equipment Systems Design (except Sound & Communication
Systems) and Noise
& Vibration Control. The architect of the Palace
of Arts was Gabor Zoboki of Zoboki Demeter & Associates
Architects.
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