@Cineruss While we're veering off into oddities of buildings, their designers and their maintenance folk:
In Hamilton, Ontario
Theatre Aquarius is the smaller of the producing theatres. The
auditorium was heated and / or cooled by three, roof-mounted,
HVAC units; one for the balcony, another for under the balcony and the third for the remainder of the
main floor.
Two problems: The founding Artistic Director would only run the A/C for performances when a paying audience was anticipated. All day the sun would
beat down on the roof plus we'd be using the lighting for rehearsals. At approximately 6:00 p.m., Peter would turn all three A/C units on full blast intent on cooling the
auditorium by half hour. The
HVAC units were on the roof, their distribution ducts were immediately below the roof. The ducts were round and Peter had the design engineers go with noisy uninsulated / single wall ducts to minimize costs.
The
auditorium got warm all day with the heat rising to the roof. Peter'd turn on the
HVAC units, the chilled air would enter the ducts, all of the exterior surfaces of all the ducts would sweat; being round, gravity would pull all of the sweat to the lowest
point where rain would drip off the bottoms and several rows of seats got wet, nicely in time for the arrival of patrons.
Also due to Peter insisting on holding costs down, the three
HVAC units were not coordinated. Every now and again one of the units would sense the
auditorium was getting cold, kick into heating, and do its
level best to heat the entire
auditorium leading to two thirds of the
auditorium getting chilled and one third perspiring like crazy. NOTE: Gentleman sweat while ladies perspire; ladies NEVER sweat.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard