Auburn Hospital, part of Western Sydney Area Health Service, is a 184 bed hospital near Parramatta, NSW.

Brookfield Multiplex asked ID/Lab to develop a wayshowing strategy and provide signage allocation plans, schedules, signage design and a tender document. 

We worked in close collaboration with the architects STH and Hassell, and with the art consultant on the development of the strategy. Art types and placement can have a great influence on peoples’ navigational behaviour.

Between the different parties, we ensured that art and wayshowing worked hand in hand.

The hospital had indicated that they wished to integrate the main art piece in the signage design.

For this project we engaged a designer who used our design performance specifications to develop a signage design that would refer back to this great piece of Aboriginal art in the main stairwell.