A high school student who requested the drawings, pulled out the
plan view and asked for interpretation? That's really great. If you want to blow somebody away, look up Symmes et al. , phone them, ask for the project architect for the school, and ask if the
auditorium elevation or detail sheets are available. You'll only take a moment of his/her day and it'll probably be the first time they fielded such a
call from an interested student.
Bill is right, an elevation view would clarify it for you.
But the
plan view indicates the lock
rail and
arbor pit together, so probably the lock
rail is at
stage level. The arbors descend into a pit to allow more travel than if they stopped at the floor.
The
fly floor is presumably a
loading bridge above, like a
broad catwalk. As Bill indicates it may also have a
rail for spotlines.
The welch or tension blocks will be at the bottom of the pit. Bill can speak to the proper way to do this, but I've generally seen
conventional welch blocks in that position. If so, when you need to slack the
purchase lines for certain manipulations, you have to poke a stick into the pit and push down on the onstage
edge of the welch blocks to
release them. Like a 2x4.
The elevation below is of a typical
system, courtesy the JR
Clancy site. Notice the lock
rail overhangs the pit. You can see the same
overhang on your
plan view, where the "
Edge Of Pit Below" is onstage of the
lockrail.
I'm super impressed that a student obtained the drawing and asked about it. A lot of stagehands have worked entire careers and shown a fraction of that
level of interest. You are going to do well at whatever you
settle on, so dream big.
Yocan see