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Sectors
Sports and leisure venues
A building half empty most of the time and packed a few times a month. Wayfinding is designed for the full day.
In a sports venue, wayfinding is judged by what happens twenty minutes before the start: everyone arrives at once, ticket in hand, needing to find a sector marking without stopping. So the system starts outside — entrance and sector marking has to be visible from the queue, not only once inside.
Inside, the system splits into two streams that must not mix: spectators towards the stands, athletes and staff towards changing rooms and back of house. Escape marking here assumes full capacity and everyone moving the same way, so signs go at a height that reads over the heads of a crowd.
Typical scope
- Entrance and sector marking visible from the queue outside
- Guidance to stand, row and seat
- Separate routes for spectators and for athletes and staff
- Changing room, first aid and back-of-house marking
- Facility marking: toilets, cafeteria, ticket office
- Escape marking calculated for full capacity
- Signs at a height that reads in a crowd
- Materials for wet areas by pools and showers
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