The Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port is one of the largest and most com­plex trans­port in­fra­struc­ture pro­jects in Ger­many. The build­ing was de­signed by the renowned ar­chi­tects gmp and JSK In­ter­na­tional. Moni­teurs was al­ready ac­tively in­volved in the pro­ject at the com­pe­ti­tion phase for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­sign, and by de­grees was com­mis­sioned to de­sign the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the air­port in­clud­ing its sur­round­ings. A key de­sign fea­ture is the colour red, un­usual for air­ports. This gives clear sig­nals for ori­en­ta­tion, and also har­monises with the ar­chi­tec­ture, with its warm tones of wood and nat­ural stone. At the same time, it is mod­elled on the ap­pear­ance of its home states of Berlin and Bran­den­burg. In many places, the signs are di­rectly em­bed­ded into the ar­chi­tec­tural pan­els – some flow around the cor­ner, and this con­cept is wo­ven into the prod­uct de­sign of the signs out­side the build­ing.

With around 9.5m PAX a year and 400 take­offs and land­ings a day to over 100 des­ti­na­tions, Stuttgart Air­port is one of the busiest air­ports in Ger­many. The goal is to op­ti­mise the pas­sen­ger traf­fic rout­ing in the four ter­mi­nals in or­der to al­low pas­sen­gers to reach their gate quickly and safely. The ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem was al­ready made more dy­namic in the last few years, yet it was still worth ex­am­in­ing where it was pos­si­ble to im­prove the in­for­ma­tion de­sign. Af­ter a more de­tailed analy­sis of the air­port, Moni­teurs ad­vised the Ter­mi­nal Man­age­ment and the com­pany man­age­ment with re­gard to in­for­ma­tion ar­chi­tec­ture, nam­ing sys­tems, graph­ics, and ana­logue and dig­i­tal ori­en­ta­tion sig­nage. A flex­i­ble rout­ing sys­tem to the se­cu­rity checks, in con­sid­er­a­tion of pas­sen­ger ca­pac­ity, was one of the main cri­te­ria. The first mod­ules have al­ready been im­ple­mented.

In the build­ings Ter­mi­nal 1, Fo­rum of the Mu­nich Air­port Cen­ter (MAC) and Cen­tral Build­ing, the sig­nage is no longer uni­form and the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem has grown his­tor­i­cally over the years. Tech­ni­cal re­quire­ments and pas­sen­ger ex­pec­ta­tions have in­creas­ingly changed.

Han­nover Air­port is un­der­go­ing a re­build - while it is still in op­er­a­tion. In fu­ture, an air­side cor­ri­dor will con­nect Ter­mi­nals A, B and C. The com­pre­hen­sive mod­ern­iza­tion also in­cludes the re­newal of the guid­ance and ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem.

Changed pas­sen­ger routes, more ser­vices and of­fers as well as the dig­i­tal­iza­tion of the guid­ance sys­tem are the chal­lenges Moni­teurs is fac­ing.