This 1.5-million-square-foot regional health care
center needed a better wayfinding system to guide the 31,000 patients
admitted each year as well as the 2.8 million people who visit on an
outpatient basis.
Corbin was initially called in to conduct a
wayfinding master planning process and develop
an exterior wayfinding system for the hospital's 36-acre main
campus. Since then, Corbin has been asked to develop a system of interior
signage for the main campus
buildings and satellite facilities located around Berks County.
Each
building on the main campus had been assigned an identifying letter.
Corbin designers recommended assigning a specific color and icon
shape to each letter designation as well, having found that different
people
use different visual cues to find their way through an environment.
The icon array has been applied to a wide range of signs, including
Boundary Markers, Vehicular Directional Signs, Building and Destination
Identifiers, and Parking Signs.