Children's Design: Colorful and Functional
HealthCare Designs
After decades of operating from a site in central Denver, The Children's Hospital announced it was moving to the new Fitzsimmons complex in Aurora, Colorado in 2004. The hospital commissioned Denver-based Arthouse Design to create a signage and wayfinding program for the new, 1.44 million-square-foot Children's Hospital complex and surrounding site.
“Our job was to work with management and employees to develop a wayfinding program for the new complex that was both colorful and functional. In fact, Children's Hospital management repeatedly told us, ‘You cannot make our color palette bright enough’,” says Marty Gregg, Arthouse Design principal and founder.
The new Children's Hospital opened with great fanfare after years of design and construction. “The nature of Children's Hospital allowed us to create signage that's fun, colorful, inviting, and interactive, as well as providing the key function of directing people through a large complex-often during medical emergencies," says Gregg.
Read more about The Children's Hospital Wayfinding Program and the inspiration behind the hospitals design.
