The Book-a-Slot book­ing ser­vice takes you quickly through the se­cu­rity check. To­gether with our part­ner iab­sis, a Swiss-based in­no­va­tion dri­ver, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a new prod­uct for air­ports. The con­cept and idea for this ser­vice were de­vel­oped dur­ing a hackathon at which the team won the first prize in the “Life be­fore the Air­port” chal­lenge.

The ser­vice had its first test run from 12th No­vem­ber till 20th De­cem­ber and was avail­able for 1500 flights in Eu­rope.

Moni­teurs has re­vised the Ter­mi­nal Plan Ter­mi­nal 1 and Ter­mi­nal 2 in close co­op­er­a­tion with Frank­furt Air­port. Re­duced in con­tent, easy to read and clear, it helps pas­sen­gers to get an overview of the build­ings and lev­els. The most im­por­tant des­ti­na­tions and means of trans­port are shown, as well as the con­nec­tion to the rail­way. Gates and air­lines are as­signed to the two ter­mi­nals at a few se­lected lo­ca­tions in the build­ings, back­lit, al­ways in con­junc­tion with the air­line overview.

Berlin is short of foot­bridges and yet has so many rivers and other in­ter­est­ing sites that are cry­ing out for a bridge. Work­ing with the Berlin Bridge De­part­ment of the In­sti­tute of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at the TU Berlin, we have iden­ti­fied six cen­tral lo­ca­tions that are typ­i­cal of Berlin, and where foot­bridges are needed. So be­gan the “World’s Foot­bridges for Berlin” pro­ject. Par­tic­i­pants from all over the world sub­mit­ted many cu­ri­ous, in­tel­li­gent, vi­sion­ary foot­bridge de­signs. The pre­cious col­lec­tion of 73 se­lected bridge de­signs are mapped in the mi­crosite “Bridge Finder”, a dig­i­tal com­pass, to ex­plore the con­text of the pro­ject and the city. The “Bridge Finder” first shows the near­est lo­ca­tion and then all other lo­ca­tions with in­for­ma­tion on walk­ing dis­tances. It in­forms the user of the re­spec­tive bridge de­sign and in­vites the user to go for a stroll.