Katie Turner: Architectural Design 2

​Project 01: LISDOLA Design Package

This year our class was hired to create outdoor signage and additional things for a place called LISDOLA. They are an outdoor learning area for our school district that is getting a new building and look. Because of this, they wanted to revamp the signage, benches, and monument signs that they have in place at the moment. This was the perfect opportunity for our class, as it's design work and this semester’s focus was ecology.

As such, the project I choose to do was building way-finding, it ties in with the trail signage, but I have a little bit more room to be creative because of how it will be closer to the new building and easier to manage. Because of this, in the original five designs for sign options, they are pretty permanent or a little heavy-set. They were chosen from my preliminary drawings of a lot of different ideas, or they combined the best aspects of some others.

Preliminary Drawing

Arch Sign Design

Zig-Zag Sign Design

In our second client meeting with the LISDOLA people, they choose their favorite two out of the five for us to go ahead with. These two designs were their favorites because of how they worked into the environment and how they tied in well with the new building.

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Moving Forward With the Two Designs

After the client meeting, I decided to take their favorite aspects of both designs and put them together. The first leaned more towards the modern zig-zag pattern, with a little pop of yellow from the arch design. The second took on more of the arch design, but without the arches, as I was trying to make this design and the kiosk design project go together a little bit better. (If you look into the other projects you'll see the similarities to the kiosk design). 

Design 1 Front View

Design 1 Side View

Design 2 Front View

Design 2 Side View