Büro North worked closely with Murdoch University, Lyons, and STH Architects to deliver a comprehensive wayfinding and digital signage strategy for Boola Katitjin — Western Australia’s first large-scale mass engineered timber building and a flagship learning environment for the university’s future-focused campus.

As a highly flexible, high-performance academic building designed to accommodate thousands of students each day, Boola Katitjin required a wayfinding system that could support clarity, accessibility, and intuitive movement across a complex vertical environment. Büro North collaborated from early design stages to integrate navigation seamlessly into the building’s architecture, ensuring legibility across teaching spaces, specialist learning zones, social areas, and vertical circulation paths.

Our approach combined user-centred journey mapping, addressing strategy, and spatial hierarchy analysis to create a coherent navigation framework that supports diverse student cohorts and staff. Drawing on the timber building’s warm materiality and Lyons’ architectural language, the signage system was designed to be visually calm, durable, and highly readable.

Büro North also delivered a digital signage layer to support real-time information, room allocations, and campus-wide communication needs. This digital-first approach enables Murdoch University to adapt content dynamically, supporting changing timetables, events, and operational requirements.

The outcome is a unified, future-ready wayfinding ecosystem that enhances student experience, strengthens building performance, and reflects Murdoch University’s commitment to innovation and accessibility.