Hordern Pavilion

Hordern Pavilion in Sydney is a lardmark entertainment venue, home to rock concerts, conventions, award events and festivals.

The venue's managers asked Audience Systems to provide seating which would help them to create six different layouts, with flexibility to adapt the venue further in the future. The seating solution includes a large fixed retractable unit, which stays in place once closed (shown at the bottom of each layout here), a travelling unit which can move forward of the back wall to create more intimate layouts (on the right), and two 360° steerable seating units, which are infinitely repositionable. These units are steered using a “split drive” system - the operator steers the left then the right of the unit in turn. 

The seating units are fitted with durable Accolade chairs, a popular choice in arenas and busy venues.

Take a look at how the seating units move in our short video:

And see how the seating is generating new possibilities for the venue in the client's video:

Photo of Hordern Pavilion with crowd by Jarded Leibowitz.