The official tourist route guidance system of Berlin is to be extended. Moniteurs and the office PSY:PLAN were commissioned by the city of Berlin to conduct a comparative study. The aim was to analyze the tourist route guidance systems of ten major cities and to examine the extent to which the contents and concepts of other systems can be transferred to a guidance system in Berlin. The cities studied were Dresden, Potsdam, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Bristol, London, New York, Sydney, Vienna and Zurich.

A component of the comparison is the analysis and evaluation with the handling of the low barrier and inclusive requirement.

A competition was launched in the second half of 2016 to design the additional element of the information system.

For the open spaces of the com­pany head­quar­ters of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG in Künzel­sau, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a guid­ance and ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem – on be­half of Van­gen­has­send GmbH. In ad­di­tion to the build­ings as­so­ci­ated with the three dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres and the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters, the site also con­tains a mu­seum, the acad­emy, a cus­tomer cen­tre, a num­ber of park­ing spaces … The sign fam­ily con­sists mainly of totems in two dif­fer­ent sizes. They are clearly struc­tured and meet the re­quire­ments of the dif­fer­ent user groups.

For the com­pe­ti­tion “Ori­en­ta­tion Sys­tem Volkspark Pots­dam”, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a sys­tem that opens up the park and its at­trac­tions to the vis­i­tor. The pro­posal dis­tin­guishes it­self from the con­ven­tional signs nor­mally seen around a city. The ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem should be clear and mod­ern and not merely func­tional: large pan­els at the en­trance, po­si­tioned so they are easy to see, but ad­justed so that they do not ob­struct the lines of sight in the park; within the park, as few sign­posts as pos­si­ble, quickly un­der­stand­able, that pro­vide a clear overview of the park. Shown here is the de­sign of a ground plan for the com­pe­ti­tion.