If what you're truly stating is true then I stand to be corrected. But with that said, I don't care at this point. In that rendering, if that is possible, I like what Graves did there. My bottom line, is I don't care where the idea came from. I care about retaining the RAC, adding 2,000 to 2,500 seats, expand the conconcourse, add bathrooms and change the exterior to make it more appealing.
and why does the word "sterile" mean the place is not perfect for sound reflection? If you want it multi-use, like for concerts, you work to eliminate that "feature". Whatever shape the building, you can hang structures that can shift between sound reflecting and dampening. Rutgers has a great engineering school.. engineer that.
Exactly. It's the people, not the building that make it a home court advantage. We would be plenty loud and intimidating if our home games were in Cure Arena in Trenton and we were a winning team.
Numbers, this is what I saw too. But Upstream has a major point with the addition of a club section and the limitation of adding additional seats.
Thanks for this thoughtful post. Frankly, I haven't been inside the RAC in a few years, because I live in California and when I visit, I've gone to several football games but not been able to see a BB game in several years. I'm wondering then, if there was a way to expand out behind both baskets from one end to the other to increase the trapezoid, without losing the overall space or loud acoustics. I'm sure an architect can figure that out, so that we can get a club section, premium seating and then finally additional seating so that the RAC can become more state of the art as well as increasing the seating capacity by 2,000-2500 seats, which I believe would be ideal.
Concise statement as to what is needed, ie, more seats,more rest rooms .wider concourse and more modern exterior entrance .
I don't understand your comment. Do you doubt it would revitalize downtown NB or do you doubt it needs revitalization?
restrooms.. if I have grok'd that correctly.. I think he was trying to type bathrooms, but no one takes baths there.. come to think of it, no one rests there either.. I guess most people give their bladders a rest there
I'm not sure which "rendering from the architects" you are referring to. There were multiple conceptual drawings from Michael Graves, all of them different and none were based on actual plans.
YES! many times I have mentioned that removal of them has to be part of any expansion plan. Without them, you can do wrap-around seating in 2 levels. So hang a new roof supported externally. You basically build a new shell around the old building.. large enough to allow for new concourse, escalators, whatever is needed to modernize the place.
If they serve covfefe during the game I may need the extra klbathriins.
Make that an 8,000 seat hockey arena and as Maranda Curtis Would day, I’m All In ! :Rutgers
Have you witness the construction going in NB the last 10+ years? Revitalization is on full swing and then some. The growth that is occurring in NB is beyond a simple revitalization. The only thing the arena adds to downtown now is more traffic congestion.
The one I posted on the previous page. As I said there, I'm not sure how feasible it is, but there's no question the student section starts much closer to the endline than it does now and looks to go much higher up and at a somewhat higher pitch than the current bleachers, which would give even more rows given the pitch of the trapezoid there. By eyeball it looks like about 50-60% more than the current student section, especially when including more width and the gaps. I understand these were conceptual design renderings and not formal engineering-vetted, basis-of-design drawings, but any good architectural firm ought to be able to conceptualize in the +/-10-20% range.
So enlarging that picture, it looks like there are 21 rows of seating indicated. The current student section has something like 25 or 26 rows. So the concept drawing is fewer seats. Plus you lose seats for the cut outs for the doorway tunnels to nowhere. Maybe the flareouts make up the lost seats. I don't know how you get a 50% increase from that drawing.
