It’s been a big weekend. A little team of Casosound workers got stuck into the auditorium ceiling demolition on Friday, and by Monday we’d pulled out over 50m3 of suspended ceiling frames, ceiling panels, insulation, air-conditioning ducts (and whatever else was up there).
Why did we do this? A few reasons. First, as we’ve talked to other churches about what helps make their auditorium space “work”, it seems that height becomes a pretty important factor. A higher ceiling helps with a feeling of openness, less crowded, and works better acoustically too.
Second, the advice we received from the air-conditioner consultant was that a lot of the existing ductwork was nearly 40 years old and starting to decay on the inside. And since the floor in the auditorium is sloped, that is going to make it harder (i.e. more expensive) to replace the ducts without tearing down the entire ceiling first.
Now the chairs and the ceiling are out, we’ve gone ahead and levelled off a quadrant of the room. This will become the stage area!
One of the next steps is to get an acoustic engineer in the space and work out what’s the best way to make the room feel and sound awesome for how we want to use it.
