Hi. According to the calculator developed by Koos de Heer http://www.auryn.nl/
======================================= Basic information: Width per seat (at front of chair) 2.20 feet Depth of row (incl. leg space) 3.50 feet Smallest side (width) of room (feet) 216.00 feet Number of circles 3 circles Number of seats outer circle: 298 Number of seats second circle: 288 Number of seats third circle: 278 Total number of seats: 864 Diameter of inner circle (free space) 195.00 feet ======================================= Hopefully Koos can answer you question regarding 8000 seats. Mark R. Jones Chief Executive Officer The Sunyata Group The Integral Wellness Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PO Box 58788 Renton, Washington USA 98058-1788 Phone: 425-413-6000 e-Mail: mark.r.jo...@sunyata.ws ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael M Pannwitz <mmpa...@boscop.org> Reply-To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:06:33 +0100 To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Subject: Re: Circles within rectangles Dear Christine, thats about 10 000 square meters (only a small part of the world thinks in feet) and comparing that to the approximately 3000 squaremeters we had for the event with 2108 in Germany (you will definitely break the record!!)your space would hold about 5000 people. Our space was 70 by 40 meters, not exactly square, yours is 150 by 70...very similar in shape...you do have to consider that the inner circles can be real perfect circles but as you add more circles they turn more and more into ovals...or you just add half circles at the long ends of the the room. For the 2108 people we had 10 or 12 concentric circles (people sitting on small pillows...the firedepartment would not permit chairs unless they are bolted to the floor)...that made it real easy to create breakout spaces throughout the large room (marked by gas filled ballons that were attached to small bags filled with sand, the balloons bearing the breakout space number, we had 70 spaces...for the closing circle participants pitched in creating the circles again... Seems that for 7,000 people you need a space about 1,5 the size you have now. Or, calculating for huge crowds, you might think of 1,5 square meters per person wish you lots of work, which, if it is really work, is pure fun Greetings from Berlin mmp Christine Whitney Sanchez wrote: > Hi All, > > I would appreciate your help in figuring out how many people we can fit into > Open Space concentric circles in a room that is 500 feet by 216 feet. > AND...how big a space would it take to accommodate 7,000 people in Open > Space? > > Thanks in advance for any help you might offer. > >>>From clear and chilly Phoenix, > > Christine > > Christine Whitney Sanchez > CWS - Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy > 2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue > Phoenix, AZ 85048-8990 > 480.759.0262 > <http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com/> www.christinewhitneysanchez.com > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 www.boscop.org www.michaelmpannwitz.de Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 470 resident Open Space Workers in 76 countries (working in a total of 132 countries worldwide) www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist