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Case Study: Oak Brook Park District

Illi­nois’ Oak­Brook Park Dis­trict, cre­at­ed in 1962, owns and main­tains sev­en parks. The dis­trict desired a new build­ing iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and wayfind­ing pro­gram that was both durable and flex­i­ble, but with a design to com­ple­ment the park surroundings. 

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The Oak­Brook Park Dis­trict, cre­at­ed in 1962 and locat­ed in Illi­nois, owns and main­tains sev­en parks. Cen­tral Park, a 70+ acre pub­lic park, is home to the District’s Ten­nis Cen­ter, Fam­i­ly Recre­ation Cen­ter, Fit­ness Cen­ter, Aquat­ic Cen­ter, Gaze­bo, admin­is­tra­tion office and sev­er­al out­door ath­let­ic fields, play­grounds and a walking/​bike path.

Wayfind­ing for a City Park

Oak Brook Park Dis­trict desired a new build­ing iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and wayfind­ing pro­gram that was both durable and flex­i­ble, but with a design to com­ple­ment the park sur­round­ings. The sign sys­tem was designed to dis­play unique graph­ic images, a bold font for the park name, and focused on nat­ur­al col­or tones and nature images that clear­ly defined the property.

A key fea­ture of the sign design was use of a trape­zoid shaped post. This fea­ture was picked because of the design char­ac­ter­is­tic (inter­est­ing post shape and abil­i­ty to mix/​match post styles), the func­tion­al­i­ty (mul­ti­ple stacked mes­sage pan­els for easy change­abil­i­ty) and print-on-pan­el graph­ics appli­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy for durability.

Lat­i­tude pro­vid­ed fab­ri­ca­tion con­sul­ta­tion as the chal­lenge was in direct dig­i­tal­ly print­ing onto a cus­tom shaped post ele­ment, which was thick­er than most dig­i­tal print machines com­mon­ly used in the indus­try. The curved shape of the post also was a com­pli­ca­tion in the direct print­ing process.

The design­er chose Mod­ulex Com­pass for this project because of the design char­ac­ter­is­tics (inter­est­ing post shapes and abil­i­ty to mix/​match), the func­tion­al­i­ty (mul­ti­ple stacked pan­els for easy change­abil­i­ty) and print-on-pan­el graph­ics appli­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy for durability.

Prod­ucts used:

  • Cus­tom ​“Com­pass-like” Alu­minum Post & Pan­el signs
  • LPS Series Alu­minum Letters

Ser­vices provided:

  • Val­ue Engineering
  • Fab­ri­ca­tion Consultation
  • Instal­la­tion

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