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Wayfinding by Colors
in Public Buildings
Agnieszka Kowalska-Styczen´, Joanna Bartnicka,
Christophe Bevilacqua, and Geoffrey Lepoutre
INTRODUCTION
Many people have problems nding their way around public buildings such as airports, hospitals,
ofces, or university buildings. The problem may partially lie in their spatiocognitive abilities, but
also in the architecture. Orientation and movement round the building facilitate waynding. We
dene waynding as “the information-gathering and decision-making processes that people use
to orient themselves ad move through space; how people get from one place to another” (Billger
2000). Waynding can ...