Architect and Builder April 2020 | Page 60

PUBLIC MINDED DETAILING Way-finding Design The addition of extra wings to the Fourway Mall plan resulted in the shape of a four emerging as the central organising principle. Four anchor tenants, Game, Woolworths, Checkers and the Food Court are located on the four edges of the four wings with the three floors between creating concourses and display areas with line shops and brand offerings connecting pathways. 60 The navigation and wayfinding system was designed by Seek Design. Through bringing the colour in the parking garages into the shopping mall signage systems, and making visible the colour on central lift shafts and escalators including lighting features, consumers can easily identify that a particular court or section is linked to the parking entrance they entered from. As Brent Lindeque from The Good Things Guy notes in a review , ‘it got bigger but not harder to navigate.’ Fourways Mall