Currently in the middle of a £22million Lottery-funded rebuild, with the Pavilion Theatre and the Corn Exchange already open and the Dome due to re-open next month, the theatres' staff had come to realise that, as is so often the case, the architectural plans generated for the refurbishment would actually be of little use to visiting companies since they would contain too much detail and superfluous information.
Modelbox are now adapting the architectural plans to produce a set of theatrical-style groundplans for each of the three venues, presenting theatrical users with the information they need in the form they expect to find it in. The plans will be available to visiting companies on paper or in electronic form at any scale.
Currently working to update its comprehensive - and unique - collection of electronic theatre groundplans, Modelbox has been involved with projects around the world in recent months, including producing building plans of the Winter Gardens Theatre in New York - now home to the hit musical Mamma Mia.
(Ruth Rossington)
