Teatro Municipale - Upper hall

Piacenza (Italy)

Venetian curtain made of 114. grey ARI - Reps Ignitex fabric.It measures 11 x h 5 m and was made with 50% vertical fullness.Its opening is motorized ...

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... and uses a 9SW - Longitudinal system ad hoc made in such a way that the lower edge of the curtain rises taking gradually the shape ...

... of one of the ogival arches that support the vault.The stage, intended mainly for conferences and presentations, was equipped with a ring for spotlights made of 7TX30 - Triangular trusses 29 cm.To hang the curtain on the pointed scenic arch ...

... as evident in this photo taken before its installation, a shaped Top batten made with a Ø 20 mm aluminum tube was used.Another short top batten fixed below the arch was used to hang a small fixed triangular valance and in the same way two fixed triangular wings were hung laterally.This is the situation ...

... at the end of the assembly, with the engine and the multi-groove pulleys fixed to the beam of the proscenium with metal brackets.The 3A - Aircraft cables of the 14 lifting points are managed by as many pulleys and are then diverted to the motor winding drum by means of 2 additional pulleys.

In a room obtained under the coverage of the building it was realized a hall with a stage that can entertain more than two hundred people.
The stage was endowed with a motorized Venetian curtain.

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Small Venetian curtain

Materials used in this production

3A - Aircraft Cables

Ropes

7TX30 - Triangular trusses 29 cm

Aluminium trusses

9W - Ad hoc longitudinal systems

Systems for curtains

ARI - Reps Ignitex

Muslin and canvas

Main curtains

Curtains for historical theaters

Tubes

Bars for stagecraft

Venetian curtains

Typology of curtain

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