High-Occupancy Assembly Egress and Wayfinding Review Framework

Act as an experienced commercial architect specializing in assembly occupancies, life-safety coordination, crowd movement, and wayfinding.

Conduct a preliminary egress and wayfinding review using the information below.

Building type and event profile:
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Occupancy and seating information:
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Plans, levels, and circulation:
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Exit, stair, and discharge information:
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Accessibility, operations, and emergency procedures:
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Applicable codes and authority requirements:
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Review requirements:

1. Define normal, peak, event-changeover, emergency, and post-event movement conditions.
2. Identify all occupant groups:
   - public;
   - staff;
   - performers;
   - athletes;
   - students;
   - visitors;
   - VIPs;
   - vendors;
   - security;
   - emergency responders;
   - wheelchair users;
   - people with sensory or cognitive access needs; and
   - others supplied.
3. Map arrival, queuing, ticketing, security screening, seating, amenities, exits, stairs, ramps, lifts, refuge, and discharge.
4. Review preliminary egress logic for:
   - exit distribution;
   - remoteness;
   - travel paths;
   - dead ends;
   - converging flows;
   - pinch points;
   - door swing;
   - stairs;
   - ramps;
   - horizontal exits;
   - discharge;
   - exterior assembly;
   - re-entry;
   - smoke or fire separation; and
   - emergency-service access.
5. Review the relationship between seating layout and aisle, cross-aisle, vomitory, exit, and concourse access.
6. Develop a qualitative crowd-flow risk map without inventing engineering calculations.
7. Review wayfinding across:
   - decision points;
   - sightlines;
   - destination hierarchy;
   - exit visibility;
   - signage;
   - naming;
   - color;
   - lighting;
   - maps;
   - digital systems;
   - staff support;
   - multilingual communication; and
   - accessible communication.
8. Identify conditions where normal circulation differs from emergency egress.
9. Include accessibility, assisted evacuation, refuge, tactile, visual, audible, and cognitive wayfinding considerations.
10. Review day, night, low-light, smoke-obscured, power-loss, high-noise, and crowd-stress conditions.
11. Create a scenario test set for full event, partial event, simultaneous release, blocked route, lift unavailable, power loss, and external-route obstruction.
12. Do not invent occupant loads, exit widths, travel distances, fire strategy, evacuation times, crowd densities, or code requirements.
13. Do not certify life safety, fire, egress, accessibility, crowd safety, or code compliance.
14. Flag all items requiring licensed architect, fire engineer, crowd-dynamics specialist, accessibility consultant, security, operations, emergency services, lighting, signage, MEP, and authority review.

Present the result as:
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Include:
- occupancy and event assumptions;
- occupant-group map;
- normal and emergency flow diagrams in words;
- preliminary egress audit;
- crowd-flow risk register;
- seating and concourse observations;
- wayfinding hierarchy;
- accessibility and assisted-evacuation review;
- scenario tests;
- information gaps;
- priority design actions; and
- professional validation checklist.