Impington Village College
Contents Introduction
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Typeface
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Colour palette
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Sign system
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Sign demensions
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Sign materials
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Sign collection
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Sign scale
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Sign mock ups
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Map
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Map sign
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Map sign scale
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Introduction Impington Village College is a secondary school in the Village of Impington and Histon. The school is spread out over a large area making use of several different collections of buildings to make up the whole of the school. The primary problem with finding your way around the schools area is trying to find your way from building to building without getting lost over the schools mass area and maze of different buildings. That is what my wayfinding systems primary goal will do, it will use colour codes and direction signs to help you guide you around the areas and get you to your needed location with ease. The Secondary problem with the school is finding your way to the room you need once your in the right area/building of the schooland thats what the secondary goal of the system will allow you to do. The wayfinding system will use a room numbering system or a simple room name sign that will allow you to find and see the room you need with the same ease you found the area/building in.
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Typeface The Font being used for the wayfinding system is Bliss 2 by Jeremy Tankard. The choice to use Bliss 2 came from refining down numberous different typefaces choices, like Din, Helvetica and Univers. Bliss 2 was picked out as the final choice for the wayfinding system due to its humanist characteristics giving it a refined and clear look for users to easily navigate the school grounds and buildings but while this is achieved the type also brings some warmth, friendly and welcoming feel to the signs and overall wayfinding system.
Bliss 2 Regular abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKL M NO PQ RSTUVWXY Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 & £ $ @ ! ?
Medium abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKL M NO PQ RSTUVWXY Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 & £ $ @ ! ?
Bold abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJK L M NO PQ RSTUVWXY Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 & £ $ @ ! ?
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Wayfinding system
Colour palette The colours used in the system are varied so that people can easily find the colour of the building they are heading to and then follow the signs of that colour to get to that location. On top of the building colours there is also 2 grays for car parks and paths a light green for grass areas on the map and a off-white colour for any text used. sThe chosen colours have a very varied colour palette so that the signs can be easily telled apart from each other to allow for people to pick up their heading faster.
Red C:21 M:91 Y:68 K:9
Blue C:68 M:34 Y:14 K:0
Yellow C:9 M:22 Y:75 K:0
Pink C:20 M:66 Y:3 K:0
Orange C:4 M:45 Y:77 K:0
Navy C:100 M:93 Y:24 K:10
Brown C:50 M:60 Y:70 K:40
Purple C:54 M:71 Y:24 K:4
Path Gray C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:40
Sign Gray C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:80
Grass Green C:28 M:9 Y:28 K:0
Off-White C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:5
Green C:78 M:48 Y:75 K:48
Gray C:0 M:0 Y:0 K:60 3
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Sign System The sign system is made up out of 5 different sign; a main area title sign, direction signs, door number signs, room name signs and a map sign. Each sign has its needed information (direction, title or number of place) on it and then the sign’s are colour coded for the area it is leading you to or if in the area the signs for that area are coloured to that colour.
Directional
Directional
Directional
Directional
Main Title
A06
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Room Name
Wayfinding system
Sign Demensions The different sign demensions have been set at a size that will allow people to see them from afar but not so big that they over power the area or won’t have space. This is due to some areas of the school having smaller space suchs as corriors and passage ways.
Directional
8.5cm
40cm
8.5cm
Room Name 35cm
8.5cm
A06 15cm
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Sign scale
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Wayfinding system
Sign materials The signs themselves are up from “Sintra� a dense PVC plastic material it has a variety of uses and can be used for indoor and outdoor environments it comes in several different thicknesses and can be cut into many shapes for logos and texts. it can have text put onto it fairly easy as well and is cheap to use to our sign system where the movement of rooms or adding of new buildings may happen offer after the intital signs have been made.
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The sign collection School name sign
Promenade & Languages
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Promenade Promenade
Science block Offices Science Block Main Hall Science Block Cafe S01
Library Language Block
Art block Art Block
L01
Art Block A01
Language Block
A06
Sixth form Sixth form
L09
Science block English & Maths Block Engish & Maths Block
English
Sixth form
Maths E01
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E24
Wayfinding system
Performance Arts Performance Arts Block Performance Arts
Humanities Humanities Block Humanities Block
Music Room
History
Practise Rooms
Geography
Drama
Religious Education
Dance
H01
P01
H06
P09
Sports Sports Center
Technology block Technology Block Technology Block
Sports Center Swimming Pool Gym
Information technology
Sports Hall
Design technology
G01 T01
G03
T09
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Mock ups
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Wayfinding system
Map The map system uses colours and numbers for you to be able to find the location you want to go. you pin point the area you want to go on the list then look for the number on the map then you can follow the same colour signs as the building on the map to get your needed location. The map can either be placed directly onto a wall or can be used on a two posted sign like the directional signs.
Promenade 1 - Offices 2 - Main Hall 3 - Sick Room 4 - Cafe 5 - Library 6 - Languages L01/L05 7 - Languages L06/L09 Science block 8 - Science S01/S10 9 - Science S11 /S14 Art block 10 - Art Room A01/A06 Performace arts 11 - Music Room P01/P02 12 - Practise Room P03/P06 13 - Drama P07 14 - Dance 1 P08 15 - Dance 2 P09 English & Maths 16 - English E01/E12 17 - Maths E13/E24
T and DT Block 18 - DT T01/T07 19 - IT T08 20 - IT T09
CP
26
Humanities 21 - Regious Ed. H01/H02 22 - History H03/H04 23 - Geography H05/H06
CP
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Entrance
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Physical education 24 - Pool PE01 25 - Gym PE02 26 - Sports hall PE03
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4 23
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Sixth form 27 - Sixth Form Center
21 20
14
5
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Car Park - CP You are here -
CP 11
18
15
8 19 CP
CP 9 16
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Map sign dememsions
Impington Village College Promenade 1 - Offices 2 - Main Hall 3 - Sick Room 4 - Cafe 5 - Library 6 - Languages L01/L05 7 - Languages L06/L09
51cm
Science block 8 - Science S01/S10 9 - Science S11 /S14 Art block 10 - Art Room A01/A06 Performace arts 11 - Music Room P01/P02 12 - Practise Room P03/P06 13 - Drama P07 14 - Dance 1 P08 15 - Dance 2 P09 English & Maths 16 - English E01/E12 17 - Maths E13/E24
T and DT Block 18 - DT T01/T07 19 - IT T08 20 - IT T09
CP
26
Humanities 21 - Regious Ed. H01/H02 22 - History H03/H04 23 - Geography H05/H06
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25
Entrance
24
Physical education 24 - Pool PE01 25 - Gym PE02 26 - Sports hall PE03
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1 3
4 23
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Sixth form 27 - Sixth Form Center
21 20
14
5
12 13
Car Park - CP You are here -
CP 11
18
15
8 19 CP
CP 9 16
80cm
12
CP
27
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Wayfinding system
Map sign scale
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English & Maths 16 - English E01/E12 17 - Maths E13/E24
Performace arts 11 - Music Room P01/P02 12 - Practise Room P03/P06 13 - Drama P07 14 - Dance 1 P08 15 - Dance 2 P09
Art block 10 - Art Room A01/A06
Science block 8 - Science S01/S10 9 - Science S11 /S14
Promenade 1 - Offices 2 - Main Hall 3 - Sick Room 4 - Cafe 5 - Library 6 - Languages L01/L05 7 - Languages L06/L09
Car Park - CP You are here -
Sixth form 27 - Sixth Form Center
Physical education 24 - Pool PE01 25 - Gym PE02 26 - Sports hall PE03
Humanities 21 - Regious Ed. H01/H02 22 - History H03/H04 23 - Geography H05/H06
T and DT Block 18 - DT T01/T07 19 - IT T08 20 - IT T09
CP
CP
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CP
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CP
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2 Entrance 3
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CP
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