Libraries: Designing to Meet Evolving Needs
Library design today is jam-packed with challenges--and opportunities.
Library design today is jam-packed with challenges--and opportunities.
Environmental energy levels and planned activities align for successful design.
The typefaces selected for use in signage and other applications have emotional associations for viewers.
Signage for wayfinding and other purposes should be visually symmetrical.
British practitioners/researchers installed a new signage system in several hospitals (images are available at the website noted below).
Design can encourage desired behaviors.
Effective floor plans share certain features.
Applying wayfinding research gets space users from A to B, stress-free.
Both homes and healthcare facilities install night lights to help people move through areas after all other lights have been turned off.
Research at Johns Hopkins Medical School indicates that our brains come complete with global positioning systems (GPS).