Great Hall of Lisbon School of Music

The Great Hall possesses a volume of ca. 4650 m3 and a seating capacity for 448 people, distributed across 16 rows with 28 seats. The stage possesses a flat wooden floor on joists, the audience area is tilted approximately 20º in relation to the horizontal plane and has two wooden flights of stairs in between the rows of chairs. The walls surrounding the audience go continuously around the stage in a roughly trapezoidal shape and consist entirely of large-scale shape-optimized reflection phase grating diffusors.

Measurement points and source location

The Great Hall’s plan shows the the location of the acoustic source on the stage, together with the 9 measurement points located at the audience stalls.