The strategy began by mapping each major user group from arrival to final destination. Hotel guests, residents, villa owners, visitors and service teams move through different access points and share some routes while requiring different information at particular moments.

These journey studies informed the initial information hierarchy, sign family and placement strategy. The objective was to establish the navigational logic before adapting the physical system to the character of individual zones.

Rather than developing separate navigation systems for the masterplan, hotel and residential components, LIMAH established a common framework first. Material, form and detailing were then adjusted to reflect differences between the zones.

This allowed the development to retain consistency in naming, numbering, hierarchy and information structure while giving the hotel, residential and wider public realm environments their own physical expressions.

Primary streets were assigned names while secondary streets follow a numbering structure. The same principle continues inside buildings and parking environments, where levels, rooms and parking spaces use consistent numerical logic.

Hotel room numbers follow a progressive structure, while parking spaces are numbered to support allocation and location. These underlying systems reduce dependence on individual directional signs by making the wider organisation of the place more predictable.

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