
Washington Dulles Airport, DC concourse, terminal and roadway wayfinding sign system
Comprehensive signage package and wayfinding guidelines
700+ directional signs, facilities identification signs and regulatory signs for pedestrian and vehicular wayfinding navigation throughout airport main terminal, concourses A, B, & Z and access roadway. Dulles serves 80 domestic and 40+ international destinations with its 143 gates and 14 hard stand locations. The airport sees 1,000 to 1,200 daily flights and serves 23 million passengers each year.
Work from April 2007-March 2009 included development of signage design guidelines manual and technology guidelines manual; design of sign structures, graphics and details conforming to airport architecture; sign location plans, sign nomenclature, message routing, and message inventory database.
This project designed by Mijksenaar Arup Wayfinding. Luminant Design staff William Bardel was a contracted as a wayfinding designer on the 4-person design team for this project.
Date: May 2007—May 2009. Installed August 2009–2010.
