Built in 1969, the Hy­parschale on the banks of the Elbe in Magde­burg is one of around fifty shell build­ings by Ul­rich Müther still stand­ing. Af­ter 20 years of va­cancy, the Hy­parschale is to once again be­come a cen­ter of at­trac­tion for the peo­ple of Magde­burg. In 2021, the ren­o­va­tion will be­gin ac­cord­ing to the de­sign of gmp Ar­chitek­ten, com­ple­mented by a con­tem­po­rary guid­ance sys­tem de­signed by Moni­teurs. Vi­su­al­iza­tion: gmp Ar­chitek­ten

We are part of the team led by New York-based civil en­gi­neer­ing firm sbp and ar­chi­tec­ture firm PAU that com­peted along­side 33 de­sign teams. The US “16 Tech Com­mu­nity Cor­po­ra­tion“ fa­vored our team. In ad­di­tion to a bridge that con­nects the newly emerg­ing “16 Tech In­no­va­tion Dis­trict“ with the na­tion­ally im­por­tant re­search lo­ca­tion of In­di­anapo­lis, the de­vel­op­ment of a path and guid­ance con­cept for the en­tire dis­trict is also com­mis­sioned.

In an iBook we pre­sent our guid­ance sys­tem pro­ject for the air­port Berlin Bran­den­burg. Four chap­ters ex­plain how the guid­ance sys­tem was de­vel­oped and how it shapes the ar­chi­tec­tural iden­tity of the air­port. We brought it up to date for the open­ing of the air­port. Pub­lished by nig­gli Ver­lag and avail­able in the iBooks Store > to the iBook

Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port will open its doors on 31.10 and with it our wayfind­ing sys­tem will also be launched. A pro­ject that has al­ways pre­sented us with new chal­lenges! The wayfind­ing sys­tem was al­ready im­ple­mented in 2015 at Schoene­feld Air­port, which has been part of BER as Ter­mi­nal 5 since this week. Now it is fi­nally be­ing put into op­er­a­tion in the new build­ing, at Ter­mi­nal 1. We are de­lighted. > In­sight

Schöne­feld Air­port will be­come part of Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port on 31.10. and will then be called Ter­mi­nal 5. The ter­mi­nal name is al­ready in place. The guid­ance sys­tem was orig­i­nally planned for one ter­mi­nal, but to­day it con­nects three ter­mi­nals: Ter­mi­nal 1, Ter­mi­nal 2 and Ter­mi­nal 5. Com­bin­ing func­tion with iden­tity, the wayfind­ing sys­tem forms a de­sign bracket for the en­tire BER-Cam­pus.

The air­port has its dress re­hearsal and is be­ing tested with the help of the ORAT pro­gram. The pro­gram is an in­ter­na­tion­ally es­tab­lished stan­dard for the com­mis­sion­ing of air­ports. 800 to 1000 par­tic­i­pants help to sim­u­late and thus test the air­port op­er­a­tion. The wayfind­ing sys­tem of Moni­teurs is also put to the test. Does every­one find their way? We are still mak­ing fi­nal op­ti­miza­tions – every­thing should run smoothly for the open­ing on Oc­to­ber 31, 2020.

Our work takes us to the Czech Re­pub­lic. In a for­mer Zenger sub­sta­tion an in­dus­trial mon­u­ment from the 1930s in the his­tor­i­cal cen­tre of Prague, the Kun­sthalle Praha is be­ing cre­ated as a space for Czech and in­ter­na­tional mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art. Moni­teurs is de­sign­ing the vis­i­tor wayfind­ing sys­tem and we are pleased to be work­ing on an­other pro­ject with Axel Ku­fus and OH Stu­dio.

Di­rectly in the neigh­bour­hood of the Auf­bau Haus in Berlin-Kreuzberg, an busi­ness court­yard for the work of to­mor­row is be­ing built. THE GRID, de­signed by Eike Becker Ar­chi­tects, of­fers 32 com­mer­cial units on five floors, as well as an invit­ing, green in­ner court­yard. The mod­ern build­ing wayfind­ing sys­tem is de­signed and planned by Moni­teurs, com­mis­sioned by the real es­tate com­pany Pan­dion. © Vi­su­al­iza­tion: Eike Becker Ar­chi­tects

The var­i­ous en­ergy sup­ply com­pa­nies in Sax­ony are plan­ning a head of­fice in Dres­den, which is in­tended to pro­mote a com­mon and mod­ern cor­po­rate cul­ture. An ex­ist­ing build­ing will be sup­ple­mented by a new build­ing de­signed by the ar­chi­tects von Gerkan, Marg und Part­ner. Moni­teurs was in­vited to de­sign a com­pre­hen­sive ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the of­fice build­ing for 850 em­ploy­ees. © Vi­su­al­iza­tion: gmp ar­chi­tects

The pic­togram study by Moni­teurs, which was al­ready pre­sented at the In­for­ma­tion+ Con­fer­ence in 2018, has been pub­lished in the In­for­ma­tion De­sign Jour­nal (IDJ). The study shows how dif­fi­cult the per­cep­tion of the two pic­tograms "el­e­va­tor" and "toi­let" is and why they are of­ten con­fused. The IDJ is an in­ter­na­tional jour­nal that has bridged the gap be­tween re­search and prac­tice in in­for­ma­tion de­sign since 1979. > to the ar­ti­cle