The Wheaton Grand Theater
Wheaton, Illinois

This model is built for WGT to help promote their resoration efforts, as well as give the project team a model
to make architectural design and reconstruction decisions.

Here is the main stage as it is today. The entire building has been subdivided into 3 separate theaters, whereas the original concept was one big one.

The models below are used to visualize the entire project in 3D.

  
         
 

First, photographs were taken of essential elements, including the floorplans.

Here you see the floorplans projected into 3D and the very first steps in extruding the walls are installed

  
         
         
  Here the floor elevation is extruded. Notice the pit for the orchestra, and room left for the stage basement.  
         
         
  Now the walls are drawn up through the floor elevation. You can now see the stage and lobby and concession nook.  
         
         
  Here the rough model has most of the walls up and the elevated projection booth (yellow) installed. Below is a photograph of the projection booth  
         
 
                  
 

 

Now you can see the carpeting, concession stand and candelabras in the lobby. The south wall is invisible to assist building the model.

 


Below is a virtual reality window of the lobby. This window takes a long time to load.

        Left click and drag in the window and
                                use shift and ctrl to zoom in and out.

 
                       
     
         
 

...the project in now all but finished. One can run actual movies on any of the three screens.
To see the rest of the pictures of the final model CLICK HERE