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Real rooms, real problems

Rooms that exist, at the dimensions their venues publish, with an evening that has to happen in them. Decide what you would do before you read what the arithmetic says.

Square footage is the number everybody quotes and the one that hides the most. These are the cases where it hides something.

The Column Problem

A clear span on paper, four posts in the room

The room
60 × 40 ft · 11 ft ceiling · 2,400 sq ft
The evening
120 guests · 1 bars · dancing

120 for a seated dinner with dancing, in a 2,400 sq ft room with four structural columns on a 20 ft bay.

60 ft40 ft
EntryExitStageBarFixed featureDance floorTable

Where does the dance floor go?

There is rarely one right answer. Decide yours, then read what the arithmetic makes of the room.

Geometry read from the venue's own published event specifications on the date shown. The event scenario is written by Tangled Thistle for planning education. Nothing here is a criticism of the property, and no floor plan is reproduced.