Walt Disney Concert Supply ~ travel.

Lillian B. Disney - Walt Disney's widow has donated $ 50 million to the City of Los Angeles to build a new home for Favorite Music Association and finally Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall (WDCH) was born. This is a monumental steel works 293,000 ft wide (89 300 m2), not only for lovers but also for music Scaffolding choral Los Angeles. As part of the Music Center of Los Angeles, it also works in conjunction with the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Dorothy Chandler showrooms, is a building with walls tilted, sloping and curved surfaces, roof folding stainless steel, looks like the boat is sailing all the way. Lillian Disney to supply a world-class concert for the community and is a typical work culture of the city. The idea of ​​architecture by Frank O. Gehry Partners, LLP offer, combined with the renowned sound Yasuhisa Toyota - Director-Nagata Acoustics of Tokyo, Japan and is the director of the Los Angeles office of the Company. WDCH Complex is located in the north of the central business district of the city of Los Angeles adjacent to the Grand Avenue Parkway to the east, west of Hope Road, north of Route 1 and Route 2 south . Since this can also walk to the typical works of the city such as the Cathedral Lady of Angels, located in the north-east corner of Grand Avenue and Boulevard Temple. A 7-storey underground garage has created the foundation for the project, located on the inclined position of shock. The garage structure has been put on the tape and apply nail designs flat concrete columns which connect directly to the concrete slab. Designed thick slabs 9-11 inches (228-280 mm) to the garage floor and the size of 466 x 321 ft (142 x 98 m), on the same sheet thickness of 45 inches (1,143 mm) will be granted the Supply of concert works. Thickness of plate special was designed to withstand the weight of the crane on construction work itself and later helped to transfer the load of structural steel designed concert. On the east and west edges of the Palace concert is 2 area, working as luggage storage, will contain stairwells, elevators, balconies and atori. A lobby before the concert hall and a room for the charity arranged concert hall in the north, and the training room, locker rooms, rooms for performers, the chicken wings ( lobbi) and other rooms serve the needs of the program is arranged around the concert hall. The details of the story to the dining hall from the General Grand Avenue Parkway gift stalls, cafeterias, coffee shops, and the management staff can still clearly see the concert hall. Inside of the complex has been upgraded by the increased use of sunlight, natural light from the underground channel, the window allows panoramic observed from inside Los Angeles. The work also includes a beautiful garden, a theater seating 300 circle level performances for children, a fountain of roses to give Lillian Disney, a 120 seat theater level with the floor performance and response surface sound outward, and a 2-storey house used as office management headquarters of the Association of Los Angeles music lovers. This house is lined with Italian marble, combined with a stainless steel cover plate of Supply concert adds beauty and increased visibility to the cultural center located in the area nearby. 1994 Northridge earthquake caused $ 40 billion damage, there were many lessons to be put into the design of new structures Palace Concert Los Angeles. In 1998, John A. Co. Martin & Associates, Inc.. (JAMA) of Los Angeles was hired is responsible for structural engineering works for the whole complex. Working with architects, the company added a 265 seat theater Roy & Edna Disney / CalArts in the design. Theatre will have 4 floors of 2-storey extension to garage and structural part of the building occupied Palace concert. Main show room has been designed as an intimate theater with the audience surrounding the stage. Space, the surface, the material has been combined to create clear sound and vibrant air from the engine and increased sound and vocals. Sound design requires the right corner with enough distance 65-100 ft (20-30 m) from the stage to remove the low frequencies. The convex ceiling and walls were installed by Douglas fir, is proposed as the musical instruments, software and Alaska cedar on the stage while the resonance increases from the musical instruments. The thick concrete walls and roofs to ensure that the studio is not affected by the noise of helicopters flying above. Awning 220 x 150 ft (67 x 45 m) thick, 12 inch (305 mm) by 2 slope from the center as well as on sound calculations. Northridge earthquakes have a major influence on the design of the Palace concert, even though for underground garage under construction at that time not damaged. Supply concert originally designed structural steel moment frames to resist horizontal loads. Although the structural steel moment frames have been widely used and believed that the particular expression during the earthquake, but a considerable number of beam-column joints in the frame has been damaged in earthquake time. That has led to questions about the expression of the joints in earthquakes and how one leads to suspicion construction standards of California and was designed in order to allow the type of the joints.