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The carpet is two-toned with black accents to ensure audience members can see stair edges at egress. The custom gray carpet was selected to match the room aesthetics as well as dampen performance reverberation and footfall. The closure panels, guardrail, handrail, platform frames, and stairs are all powder coated gray to blend into the gray walls of the performance space. The panels transition seamlessly into custom raker guardrail engineered to meet the loading criteria of the International Building Code, but can also be installed quickly using a minimalist design by allowing the rail to lock directly into the platform frames. The understructure of the risers are powder coated black to disappear in the darkness, and are also closed off with custom steel mesh closure panels.

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We also considered the amount of contact points the riser and stage had with the floor to ensure the live and dead loads were safely within the load capacity of the 80 plus year old build.

Our engineers achieved this by ensuring we had the least amount of unique parts and pieces needed to make the two configurations.

The riser had to seat 299 people in an end stage and corner configuration, yet tuck away into the limited storage space of the 1930s building. Every design detail, material, and finish was meticulously considered. Staging Concepts was selected to build flexible audience risers and stages that would meet two primary configurations, but would allow for many variations. One of the most important elements considered was the ability to manipulate was the audience configurations and sight lines.

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They also needed to modify the historic fourth floor space to handle the weight loads of an audience, and have the ability to control the lighting and acoustics for professional performances. The Opera needed the equipment and technology to make the space flexible for the experimental performance styles and acoustical techniques that future performances may dream up. They wanted a space that would offer the ability to push performance boundaries, inspire a new generation of audiences, and be relevant for decades into the future. The idea for the space was to be both intimate and flexible, yet somewhat informal. The 299-seat Taube Theatre is located on the 4th Floor of the Wilsey Center, and was previously occupied by the Museum of Modern Art. The Opera used the retrofit to their advantage by having the foresight to consolidate inefficient Opera activities that were spread throughout the city onto one campus, adding office space, an archive, and the state-of-the-art space now named the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theatre. Reconstructing the Veterans building had been an unavoidable task since a 1996 seismic assessment deemed the building unsafe after a major earthquake. The Center was part of a 40,000 square foot renovation to the 1930s era Veterans Building, located just north of the 3,146 seat Opera House. In February of 2016, the San Francisco Opera opened the new Diane B. By: Tom Bateman, Regional Sales Manager: West

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