Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney Wayfinding environmental graphics

Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney Wayfinding environmental graphics
by Anne Gordon

• Awarded April 15, 2017
• CLIENT: Health Infrastructure with Thiess Australia
• 9.287

Solving the Royal North Shore Hospital's wayfinding was not just about designing ‘better’ signs. Legibility, colour and graphics may be the necessary physical tools for a sign but it was the comprehension of their meaning that was important and how this was organised into a cognitive pattern of sign types. Clarity and directness of the wayfinding system is enhanced and enlivened by the use of colour utilised at each lift core as a wayfinding tool to correspond with vertical circulation. Visitors felt comfortable in their spatial environment, and were easily oriented and logically informed.