At Merck's head­quar­ters in Darm­stadt, pro­duc­tion, re­search and ad­min­is­tra­tion are con­cen­trated on an area of 1.25 square kilo­me­ters. A road net­work 36 kilo­me­ters long con­nects more than 400 build­ings. 11,000 em­ploy­ees, de­liv­ery traf­fic and vis­i­tors come and go here every day. Our con­cept of the ad­di­tive sys­tem, which was al­ready in­stalled in the In­no­va­tion Cen­ter in 2017, has now been trans­lated into the out­door area.

Pa­tients and guests must feel that they are in good hands in a hos­pi­tal and ori­en­ta­tion con­tributes to this. The Linth Hos­pi­tal in East­ern Switzer­land, be­tween Lake Zurich and Lake Walen, is an im­por­tant med­ical con­tact point with a con­stantly grow­ing num­ber of vis­i­tors. With the plan­ning of an ex­ten­sion build­ing with mod­ern ex­am­i­na­tion and treat­ment ar­eas, it be­came clear that the clinic needed a new, com­pre­hen­sive ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem. Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a con­cept for the new build­ing man­age­ment sys­tem with the guid­ing idea “In­ner life”.

An ex­ten­sion of the build­ing wayfind­ing sys­tem was re­quired for Char­ité’s core ren­o­vated and com­pletely mod­ernised Bet­ten­haus and the con­struc­tion of a new build­ing for surg­eries, and in­ten­sive care and emer­gency ser­vices. At first, Moni­teurs was com­mis­sioned to un­der­take an analy­sis. This was fol­lowed by de­vel­op­ing the fa­cade mark­ing of the new emer­gency ser­vices build­ing, the de­vel­op­ment of a com­plete new fam­ily of pic­tograms, the vi­sual guid­ance el­e­ments in the build­ing’s lobby as well as the el­e­va­tor rooms of the 21 floors of the high-rise Bet­ten­haus. The scope of works also in­cluded large-area wall ap­pli­ca­tions for the lobby and wait­ing area.