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.

In Cologne-Mül­heim, a new lo­ca­tion for cul­ture and econ­omy has been de­vel­op­ing for sev­eral years. The Carl­swerk of­fers a lively mix of busi­ness, ser­vices, gas­tron­omy and cul­ture. The area not only pro­vides the ten­ants, the res­i­dents of the dis­trict, but all vis­i­tors a lively, ex­cit­ing place. The het­ero­ge­neous de­vel­op­ment is sum­ma­rized by the strong wayfind­ing sys­tem. Moni­teurs has di­vided the site into roads and paths that are coded with bold col­ors. The en­trance marks pick up these col­ors, thus en­sur­ing easy ori­en­ta­tion. The spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion plan, shot in the re­spec­tive view­ing di­rec­tion, gives a very good overview, over the wide ter­rain. Pho­tos and texts on “his­tory flags” ex­plain the ex­cit­ing his­tory of the ca­ble plant “Carl­swerk”.

With a to­tal area of 300,000 sqm, the listed Air­port Tem­pel­hof build­ing is still one of the largest build­ings in the world. Since it has been closed to air traf­fic in 2009, the build­ing is hous­ing of­fices and event spaces. In 2013, Moni­teurs drew up the con­cept for an over­ar­ch­ing guid­ance and ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the ex­te­rior, in­clud­ing the air­field. The plan­ning for the air­port build­ing was im­ple­mented in 2016. The sign fam­ily is sim­ple and ro­bust and in­te­grates well into the pub­lic space. The ex­tremely com­plex ter­rain and ac­cess to it were clearly struc­tured and in­for­ma­tion hi­er­ar­chies were de­vel­oped.