WALT DISNEY

CONCERT HALL
M. Farhan Amran
Rima Aisha
Salsabila Rizkya
Timbul Arianto
 Area
200000.0 ft2

GENERAL Project Year

1997-2003

INFORMATION Architects
Frank Gehry
Location
111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Acoustical Consultants
Yasuhisa Toyota and Nagata Acoustics, Inc.,
Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc
Brief History and Use
● A concert hall dedicated and built using $50 mil donation by Lilian Disney
in honor for her late husband, Walt, in 1987
● Frank Gehry was chosen among competitors
● In 1994 the building was shut down but revived by a press and fund-
raising campaign two years later
● Home for LA based orchestra, LA Philharmonic (LA Phil, LAP)
● Disruption in acoustics might emerge from a new subway function,
scheduled to run 125 ft beneath the site
 Konsep awal dari bangunan karya
Frank Gehry ini merupakan
metamorfosis dari bunga mawar,
CONCEPT yang merupakan bunga yang
kerap tumbuh di lingkungan
sekitar Los Angeles.
 The concept of the Walt Disney Concert Hall building is to
capture the motion of los angeles and representing musical
movement. With an eccentric shape and stainless steel for the
facade as gehry’s signature, the building embodies the shape
of a flower and acts as a landmark unlike any other.
Diagram are from, https://www.slideshare.net/CityLabSarasota/disney-concert-hall-frank-gehry-
58683023
 ACOUSTICS
Fokus akustik kepada bagian utama
bangunan yaitu sebagai concert hall dan
bagaimana akustik pada ruangan bekerja
= Main concert
hall

= Besides Main
hall
The Main Concert Hall
Vineyard seating Organ (Gehry &
and balcony, Manuel J. Rosales)
audience capacity with 6.134 pipes
2.265

Warm tones of douglas-fir and

alaskan yellow cedar are
used in this main hall. Not
only for visual but also
acoustical purposes.

Single volume
design
Open stage
No private boxes, producing
an intimate quality in protest
of concert hall elitism
Curved ceilings
(Douglas-fir wood)
Steel roof structure
span, eliminating
columns

The reverberation time

of the hall is
approximately 2.2
seconds unoccupied
and 2.0 seconds
occupied

Stage (alaskan yellow

cedar)

Floors (Oak wood)

Curved boundaries
between seating areas
(Douglas-fir wood)
Reverberation Time
Volume: 30,600 CM

Reverberation Time Mid-Freq

Unoccupied: 2.2 sec (at 500 Hz)

Occupied: 2.0 sec (at 500 Hz)

Organ: Rosales Organ Builders, Inc.

 Central stage (open stage)

A combination of
convex and concave
boundaries to scatter
and focus the sounds
to different parts of the
building.
Convex and Concave

Bidang-bidang cekung
Walaupun pada dasarnya
Memusatkan suara
Namun, jika diperlakukan
Dengan sudut tertentu
Dapat justru mengarahkan
suara
 Seating
arrangement
manifested
in clusters

Vineyard steps
design
to create more Conventional
flat (convex) balcony is
surfaces for the replaced with
sound to scatter subtler height
and allows the difference,
sound of the compensated
orchestra to be with low and
unamplified. curvy boundaries
On the sides Convex ceiling to
of the stage replace sharp
and the corners
ceilings are
convex
curved
boundaries
to disperse
sound

On the front of
the stage the
seating and
boundaries are
formed in
concave curves
to converge
sound
 Slightly different angles
in two levels of seating
group

Stage area
This design can achieved full sound
coverage from an unamplified orchestra,
but cannot control the sound volume.
This where the vineyard seating design
is useful, the terraced seating surround
the orchestra allowing for more flat
surfaces and this would increase the
reflected area. 52m

24,5m

18,3m
 This is a diagram of how sound or
sound quality works in the main
concert hall.

Picture are from,

http://www.academia.edu/30867748/Analisis_Akustik_Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall
Standards
Seating in
main hall

Aisle in both side of every row of

seats that has more than 10 seats.
The risers on the isle are between
115mm - 190mm
Above all the elements in this concert hall, we know that
for acoustic, reverberation and echo are important factor
that defines sound quality. Recommended RT for this
hall depends on the use of the hall, for this use is
around 2.0 +- 0.2 for organ >2.5
Besides The Concert Hall
Pre-concert room
Specific steel structure,
including box columns,
steel frame through
skylight,

Lobby
Section on service
area,
Smaller dimension from
other fungsional room
like Lobby, Plaza,
Concert Hall, etc.

Corrugated metal
skin of steel
(12500 pieces of
steel)

Exterior
The exterior is a composition
of undulating and angled
forms, symbolizing musical
movement and the motion of
Got some complains from
Los Angles. surroundings
 CONCLUSION
As an unamplified auditorium, Walt
Disney Concert Hall relies on its acoustic
quality purely based on the materials it
used and its seating arrangements.
References
● AD Classics, 2013, ArchDaily, Accessed on https://www.archdaily.com/441358/ad-classics-walt-disney-concert-
hall-frank-gehry?ad_medium=gallery
● Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wikiarquitectura, Accessed on https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/walt-disney-
concert-hall/
● Walt Disney Concert - Frank Gehry, HIMARTRA, Acessed on https://himaartra.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/walt-
disney-concert-hall-frank-gehry/
● Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall, Architecture Week, Accessed on
http://www.architectureweek.com/2003/1217/design_1-2.html
● Walt Disney Concert Hall, Nagata Acoustics Inc., Accessed on:
http://www.nagata.co.jp/e_sakuhin/factsheets/wdch.pdf
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ur1GAkmoF0
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEd1uDOZJE