The map portrays the ground floor plan of Teatro Studio Melato. The seating for this performance is arranged with front-facing stalls.

Conventional signs

• The thick solid lines are walls; the dashed square is the stage area;
• the filled raised squares are pillars;
• the checkered areas are the seats;
• the hollow shapes in solid line are the outlines of seating elements;
• the filled raised areas are areas that are inaccessible to the general public;
• the multiple thin arrowheads are stairs and ramps;
• the small crossed boxes are elevator shafts;
• the dotted arrows mark entrances and exits to/from the building;
• the dotted areas are the toilets;
• the diagonal-striped areas are the bar and cloakroom;
• the “B” in large print and in braille marks the ticket office;
• the cross marks the position of this panel.
   

Exploration
In the upper left corner of the map you will find the words “Teatro Studio Melato – Tribuna frontale” (meaning “Front-facing stand” in Italian) in large print and in braille, while in the upper right corner is the QR Code linking to this guide.

Now place both hands on the lower edge of the map and move your fingers slightly upward. You should be able to locate some dotted shapes — specifically three on the right side and one on the left. These are the arrows marking the entrance (on the left, pointing up) and the exits (on the right, pointing down) of the building.

Right where the arrows sit, we can find the actual gaps in the building perimeter, which is drawn in a thick solid line. The façade runs along the lower edge of the map: if we follow it to the right, in the lower right corner we will detect a dotted area crossed by some lines. These are the toilets and not far from here, a little higher up and to the left, we may also find several multiple arrowheads marking the stairs to the upper floors.

Now, touch the rightmost arrow and slide slightly upward, following the line of its tail: you’ll find a cross marking the position of this panel. This is where we are.

If instead, from the leftmost of the three exit arrows, we move our fingers upward we’ll find a small filled rectangle, which is a room that cannot be accessed by the public and, just above it, the arrows of another staircase leading to the three upper balconies.

Let us go back to following the perimeter of the theatre, starting from the toilets again and now climbing upward along the right side of the map. A little over halfway up the panel, we find another gap in the wall at the height of an emergency exit.

Let us continue upward along the perimeter and, just below the QR Code, we will reach a corner that bends sharply to the left. Here we immediately find the opening of an exit and, a little further on to the left, a second opening: these are both emergency exits.

We continue left along the perimeter, which bends at a right angle downward, then again to the left and again downward, forming a sort of step. If we proceed toward the left side of the map, after a small “bulge,” we will reach the edge of the building, where the wall picks up its vertical course. Here, too, we find a small inset in the outline with the gap of an access, normally reserved for performers but which doubles as an emergency exit.

Just below this exit, on the inside, we find a roughly square raised area which cannot be accessed by the public. To its right we should be able to identify the small crossed box representing an elevator shaft. From here we proceed downward over a wall and we will find two oblong vertical spaces separated by a horizontal wall, both covered in diagonal stripes: these are, in order, the cloakroom and the bar. 

A row of pillars on their left side separates these spaces from the foyer, which occupies the L-shaped empty space in the lower left part of the building. Against the left wall we’ll find the thin outlines of the seating elements in the foyer, while on the right — specifically at the bottom right in relation to the bar — we shall find a “B” in large print and in braille: this is the ticket office. 

If we move our hands from here upward to the right, toward the middle of the panel, we should quickly be able to identify the hall with its semi-circular, almost oval profile, which in its upper half presents a checkered surface: these are the seats of the tiered stands. Let us explore its shape with both hands: we will find two checkered areas almost in the centre of the space, side by side in a fan shape. On either side of these two sectors and between them, we may find the arrowheads of the stairs that provide access to the seats. Along the lower side runs a thin line forming a structure that is “wrapped” around the stalls; one of the stairways runs down the middle of this line. 

If we follow the solid semicircle of the hall perimeter, in addition to locating the openings of several access points, we will find at its upper right and upper left ends two “U”- shaped niches containing arrowheads: these are the stairs leading to the three upper balconies wrapped along the curve of the hall.

We continue upward and, beyond the smooth space just above the stalls, we will meet a dashed line. If we follow it we will find it draws a rectangular shape, to the right and left of which we may find the raised squares of some pillars. This space is the stage, which is on the same level as the rest of the hall.