Performing Arts

Lanphier High School

Springfield, IL

Auditorium renovation AV: reinforcement, projection, wireless, intercom, and touch-panel control.

Renovated auditorium from the stage — balcony, catwalk levels, and rear control room.Photo: Mercer Aplin

About the project

A renovated high school auditorium asked for professional-grade tools that a student crew can run confidently on a school-night schedule.

Reinforcement combines a flown line array at the proscenium with distributed fills tucked into the balcony soffit so speech stays intelligible under the overhang. A rolling mix position carries the console, wireless microphone and in-ear racks, and monitoring, while a single touch panel front-ends projection, source selection, and system power for assemblies and events that run without a technician in the room.

Key specs

Sector: Performing Arts
Location: Springfield, IL
Role: AV systems design consultant
Firm of record: Threshold Acoustics, Chicago
Design team: Architect: BLDD Architects; Construction Manager: O'Shea Builders
Documentation: 6 site photographs

Gallery

View from the balcony toward the stage, showing overhead loudspeaker positions on the catwalk.Photo: Mercer Aplin

Balcony-soffit fill loudspeaker and projector, color-matched to the architectural finish.Photo: Mercer Aplin

Flown line array at the proscenium with center cluster behind the main curtain.Photo: Mercer Aplin

Rolling mix position: DiGiCo console, wireless microphone and in-ear racks, and monitoring.Photo: Mercer Aplin

Extron touch panel with school branding — one-touch system startup for non-technical users.Photo: Mercer Aplin

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