Alabama School of Fine Arts
Birmingham, Alabama
Project Type: New Construction
Seat Count: 500
Opening: July 2010
Construction Cost: $10 Million
Architect: The Garrison Barrett Group
Architect: Theatre Projects Group
AD Scope: Acoustics, Audio, VideoThe Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) is rated one of the top High Schools in the entire country. The school is
constructing a performing arts facility to support the theatre, dance and music programs. The facility will also be
available to many of Birmingham’s art’s groups that do not have a home of their own in which to perform.
The facility will feature a 500-seat theatre with a fully-rigged stage house and state-of-the-art performance systems
(lighting, rigging, audio and video). While first and foremost a theatre, the design includes some unique design
elements that provide for the accommodation of music without any compromise to to its support of theatrical
productions. This includes an acoustically transparent zone in the wall separating the stage house from the
audience chamber above the proscenium. The volume above the ceiling and below the roof can be coupled to
the room volume below by a simple mechanism that removes some of the ceiling elements. Adjustable acoustics
panels and curtains are also provided to allow easy adjustment of the room’s liveness in order to accommodate
the broad range of programming and performance genres anticipated.
