Assignment
Review architectural plans for restoration of existing structure
and its expansion and recommend wayfinding strategies.
Implementation
The firms of Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott and Venturi
Scott Brown teamed to design an expanded main library for Dartmouth
College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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The
addition to the existing 1928 building posed many critical
wayfinding challenges.
Catt Lyon Design prepared
a wayfinding needs assessment which articulated all the potential wayfinding problems
library patrons might encounter, as well as potential solutions to those problems.
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This document also included destination maps which clarified destinations
and pathways, a sign hierarchy which ranked sign types in order
of importance and photographs of existing historic signage elements to be
preserved.

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