GALLERY OF DESIGNS — click a thumbnail for a larger version    Theatres
	Here the audience in the "orchestra" section doesn't have to shuffle their feet, because all 202 seats are mounted on a motorized turntable.  In the diagram below, I've shown half of it in two different positions. When the turntable is in the position shown in blue, its seats face the smaller stage outlined in blue in the middle of the room, and we have a sort of theatre in the round. When the turntable rotates 180° to the position shown in purple, its seats face the main stage outlined in purple.  For good measure, that main stage also rotates to facilitate scene changes. (TEXT CONTINUED BELOW) As I have since learned, these are also elements in the Walter Gropius "Total Theatre" project of 1926-27.  Click the drawings at the right for a fuller discussion. In my version, the floor of the audience turntable slopes down from level e+ to level a, with each row half a step lower than the one behind it.  The stationary floor that surrounds the turntable is stepped in one direction on the left side of the house and the other direction on the right side.  Therefore, audience members must always exit to their left, no matter in which position their turntable is parked.