Project Overview
Everglades is a place of cultural and natural beauty located in Sydney’s World Heritage listed Blue Mountains. Owned by the National Trust of Australia, the Everglades grounds include breathtaking garden terraces and the Art Deco Everglades House. Everglades was the first private modernist garden built in Australia in the 1930’s by Paul Sorensen, a Danish landscape designer. As part of its upgrade, Frost* was consulted to identify opportunities for identification, directional and interpretive signage in order to give National Trust visitors a deeper understanding of Everglades unique story.
Project Commissioner
The National Trust of Australia (New South Wales)
Project Creator
Team
Design Director: Carlo Giannasca
Account Director: Bianca Mediati
Industrial Designer: Stefan Kahn
Designer: Bianca Chang
Signage Contractor: Consolidated Graphics
Project Brief
As part of the Everglade’s upgrade, Frost* was consulted to identify opportunities for identification, directional and interpretive signage in order to give National Trust visitors a deeper understanding of Everglades unique story.
Project Innovation / Need
Frost* developed a signage and wayfinding system, ensuring the design was sympathetic to landscape and its existing features. The ‘leaf’ in the National Trust brand inspired the signage colour system of pale green with a burst of bright green on the side profile. The signage system was used to strengthen the brand and communicate to visitors that the site was a part of a collection of significant national sites.
A selection of beautiful black and white photographs from the Everglades archives were chosen for the interpretive graphics to contextualise the history of the grounds. The wayfinding signage and interpretive graphics have assisted in re-establishing Everglades as a landmark destination for locals and tourists alike.
Design Challenge
In response to the extreme climatic variables, a simple, robust and modular signage system was developed that could withstand freezing cold temperatures in winter and humid wet summers.
The signs were made of aluminium panels that were painted with a two pack polyurethane paint finish. The graphics were screenprinted to the face of the panels and then coated with a clear anti graffiti finish.
Sustainability
To ensure that we minimized waste through the construction phase Frost* designed within standard sheet and material sizes. All signs are a module of 300mm x 300mm. This eliminates waste as standard sheet sizes are 1200 x 2400mm.
Wayfinding
This award recognises the role of design in the ways people orient themselves in physical space, and navigate from place to place. Consideration given to signage and other graphic communication, clues in the building's spatial grammar, logical space planning, audible communication, tactile elements and provision for special-needs users.
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