Welcome West at The Royal Society Of Edinburgh

Welcome West is 14.2 x 14.2 m (47 x 47 ft), 202 m² (2,170 sq ft), with a 3.1 m (10 ft) ceiling.

Plan view

Shape approximate: the venue publishes area only, so this room is drawn as a square of equal area.

LED wall that fits

Under a 3.1 m ceiling with 1.5 m trim and 0.3 m clearance you get 2 rows of 500 mm tile flown, which is tight; ground-stack or go lower on trim. Along the 14.2 m wall a Absen A2 Pro wall runs 22 x 2 (3696 x 336 px, 440 kg, 8.1 kW).

Wall sizing assumes 1.5 m trim to the bottom edge, 0.3 m clearance under the ceiling, and a wall no wider than 80% of the longest wall. Weight and power are tile totals from the panel spec sheet; add processing, rigging, and cable.

Seating estimate

After a 12 x 7 m stage, Welcome West holds about 261 theater seats, 106 banquet seats at rounds of 10, or 73 classroom seats. Back row in theater is roughly 7.2 m from the downstage edge; the previz checks whether the bottom of the wall clears the heads in front.

Other rooms at The Royal Society Of Edinburgh

• Wolfson Lecture Theatre9.6 x 9.6 m (31 x 31 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Welcome East8.8 x 8.8 m (29 x 29 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Swann Room8.7 x 8.7 m (29 x 29 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Scott Room8.2 x 8.2 m (27 x 27 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Upper Gallery8.1 x 8.1 m (27 x 27 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Kelvin Room7.7 x 7.7 m (25 x 25 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Lower Gallery6.2 x 6.2 m (20 x 20 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Auerbach Room5.5 x 5.5 m (18 x 18 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• MacRobert Room5 x 5 m (16 x 16 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Turner Room4.1 x 4.1 m (13 x 13 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• Hutton Room3.5 x 3.5 m (11 x 11 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling
• James Clerk Maxwell Room1 x 1 m (3 x 3 ft) · 3.1 m ceiling

Published dimensions (source), fetched 2026-09-05. All rooms at The Royal Society Of Edinburgh · Venues in Edinburgh