The Rady Shell Debuts in San Diego

California Buildings News • Q3 2021

World-Class Concert Venue Debuts in San Diego

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego’s recently inaugurated bayside concert center, boasts performance features rivaling any outdoor entertainment venue in the world. It is a work of art as well as a new iconic symbol of one of the West Coast’s most beautiful cities.

The acoustically engineered stage features a concert shell designed to complement the San Diego Convention Center sails and surrounding downtown development. The stage provides a larger performance space for both the orchestra and guest artists,” according to the park. The Shell resulted from an agreement between the San Diego Symphony and the Unified Port of San Diego. The Embarcadero Marina Park South site provides the community with a venue where culture and nature intersect, where music and a restored park are combined to give San Diegans a unique gathering place. It will be managed and programmed by the San Diego Symphony and represents a partnership of business and the arts.

Its features include:

w Covered stage with 13,000 square feet of performance space and ancillary back-of-house facilities w Sunset steps and patio at the back of the performance stage for stunning views of the Bay and public use during non-event hours w Flexible seating capacity varying from intimate seating up to 10,000 w Terraced seating to provide all concert guests unobstructed views from nearly every seat w Temporary seating that allows for lawns to be open to the public during non-event periods w Improved and environmentally sustainable landscaping and trees w Sand-based synthetic turf in the main seating area and pre-event spaces, which will reduce water consumption and be more environmentally friendly w The venue is part of Jacobs Park, inside the larger Embarcadero Marina Park; the park will be open to the general public during non-event hours.

California Buildings News • Q3 2021

The Shell is being compared with other major national venues like Wolf Trap, Tanglewood and Ravina.

“Business leaders no longer need to choose between arts and economic development. An investment in the arts is an investment in an industry that supports jobs, generates revenue and helps encourage new business to our region,” says Mark Cafferty, President and CEO San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.

Almost entirely funded by private philanthropy, the five-year long project has been led by the San Diego Symphony and a host of business and government leaders. Complementing the city’s Downtown renaissance, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, with its dramatic design and unique waterfront location, will greatly enhance opportunities for tourism, residential life and business growth.

The Rady Shell’s Design Team

Tucker Sadler Architects is lead designer and architect of record of this state-of-the-art venue. Greg Mueller, the firm’s CEO and design principal, has been involved with the project from its inception 18 years ago. He and his team have been responsible for The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park as a whole, encompassing the performance shell, backstage artist support spaces, three professional kitchens, underground restrooms, a gracefully sloped seating area for up to 10,000, and a park open to the public on one of the most beautiful settings between San Diego Bay and the San Diego skyline.

A key partner was Soundforms, designer of the performance shell. Soundforms and its London partners Flanagan Lawrence, Expedition and ES Global designed the award-winning 2012 mobile acoustic performance shell (MAPS) to be temporary and acoustically excellent. Working together Tucker Sadler, Soundforms expanded the design to accommodate a large orchestra with chorus and soloists and to be permanent structure on the Embarcadero Marina Park South site.

Sound Consultant Shawn Murphy worked closely with San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer and the entire design team to ensure the creation of the best possible acoustic environment. He introduced to the team a San Francisco-based firm, Salter, dedicated to acoustic and sound engineering and audiovisual components. Working with Salter,

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Solutions performed and implemented a network architecture design. ECHO interfaced and coordinated with the structured cabling, electrical and general contractors to achieve the project goals. Berkeley-based

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designed the signature Constellation System, used here in its first outdoor installation, which creates an onstage acoustic equivalent to the high standard of indoor concert halls. The combination of the shell design with Salter’s acoustic paneling, the Meyer Constellation

system and the custom designed L-Acoustic surround reinforcement system, has created the best possible acoustic experience for performers, which translates across a wide range of musical genres into an extraordinary sonic experience for audiences.

Another key partner in creating the performance shell is the Australia-based company Fabritecture, which developed and oversaw the technical design, fabrication and installation of the tensile structure of the performance shell, as well as the backstage support spaces, executive kitchen, the box office and two dining pavilions.

Two further design partners are HLB, which completed the architectural lighting design, and Schuler Shook, which completed the theater lighting and rigging design. Burton Landscape Architecture Studio is the official landscape architect of The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

California Buildings News • Q3 2021

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"ECHO jumped in after being retained later than optimum in terms of the project schedule and accelerated the process to meet the functional goals in time for the opening of the venue. They interfaced and coordinated well with the structured cabling, electrical, and general contractors to achieve this outcome. With this project, ECHO demonstrated their ability to complete projects that can be at some distance from their corporate locale employing both physical and virtual presence. "

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