St Luke’s Catholic College is a Catholic learning community in Marsden Park, NSW, offering education from preschool through to post-school. With an extended school day running from 6:30am to 6pm, the campus serves a broad community and was designed to set a new standard for contemporary Catholic education in Sydney’s north-west.
— Project
St Luke’s Catholic College
Overview
Challenge
Alleanza Architecture needed a signage partner who could take the campus identity and wayfinding from an early concept stage, with design only around 10% complete, through to full installation. The project had a firm opening programme that couldn’t move, and with multiple buildings across a large campus, students, staff, and visitors all needed to be able to find their way from day one. Coordination between several stakeholders, including Alleanza, the College, and the Diocese, added another layer of complexity, as did carrying out parts of the installation on a live school site.
Solution
CSI had already completed signage work at the College, which meant an existing understanding of the campus and how its requirements were evolving. Working under Alleanza’s project management, CSI took the package from a basic brief through to completion: design development, shop drawings, in-house fabrication, and staged installation, with a single point of contact throughout.
The scope covered campus-wide brand signage, internal signage, wayfinding, and murals. CSI managed reviews and approvals across all three stakeholders and coordinated installations around the operating school. The result was an $812k signage, wayfinding, and mural package delivered on time for opening, giving the College a consistent identity across the campus and a layout that students, staff, and visitors can navigate with ease.
The project led directly to further work with Alleanza on Westmead Catholic Community College, as well as ongoing work with St Luke’s.
“Corporate Sign Industries were great to work with, responsive, engaging and the resulting graphics were very positively received by the client. CSI brought the project through from a basic brief to completion, under Alleanza project management. We’re just sorry that we were unable to get them involved in the project earlier.” — Brendan Cotter, Project Leader, Alleanza Architecture
