Perimeter Church
Main Auditorium
Duluth, Georgia
Project Type: New Construction
Seat Count: 2,400
Opening: 1999
Architect: BMP Architects
A/V Installation: Initial: Ford Audio-Video
Upgrades: Peerson Audio
AD Scope: Audio & AcousticsRelated projects
The Bricks
Kidstown
Perimeter utilizes high energy music and innovative drama as a part of their worship services. Every service is preplanned and uses music elements specifically relating to the sermon of the day. On many Sundays, a small drama vignette supports the sermon.
Musical styles vary from contemporary with a small rhythm section, to classical with orchestra and choir. What the congregation needed was a sound system that could handle the diversity. The sound system provides moderately high-output loudness levels, full-range frequency response and excellent articulation and high gain before feedback. These goals were achieved with the lowest reasonable cost possible.
The fan-shaped auditorium presented tremendous acoustic challenges. We developed unusual ceiling shaping to reduce the sound-focusing effect of the fan-shaped auditorium and to improve the natural acoustics. The ceiling was angled down to meet the rear wall at the back of the balcony, and the rear walls were angled. Large vertical “fins” extend down from the ceiling surface to catch sound emanating from the platform and redirects them into the seating area in the same way sound is sent into the seating area in a shoebox concert hall.
