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.

Adler­shof is Ger­many’s most mod­ern en­tre­pre­neur and tech­nol­ogy cen­tre, with over 900 com­pa­nies and or­gan­i­sa­tions from acad­e­mia, busi­ness and the me­dia. This di­ver­sity is re­flected in coloured signs that greet every vis­i­tor. To make it pos­si­ble to nav­i­gate from the cen­tral street of Rudower Chaussee, Moni­teurs, to­gether with prod­uct de­signer Axel Ku­fus, de­signed an ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem that bor­rows from the ar­che­type of the leg­i­ble sign: the clas­sic sign­post. For the signs, Moni­teurs adopted the ex­ist­ing colour cod­ing of each of the quar­ters of Adler­shof. A smaller sign at the top also shows the way to a cen­tral in­for­ma­tion point.

Märkisches Vier­tel is an ur­ban quar­ter in Berlin, a large hous­ing es­tate with al­most 40,000 res­i­dents, cov­er­ing a space of 3.2 square km, the ori­en­ta­tion of which is dif­fi­cult. In 2006, Moni­teurs worked closely with this city dis­trict and de­vel­oped, un­der con­tract of Gesobau AG, an ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for sev­eral groups of apart­ment blocks. In 2013, the dis­trict au­thor­ity of Reinick­endorf held a com­pe­ti­tion to de­velop a new ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, which Moni­teurs won. Dur­ing the ini­tial phase, Moni­teurs con­sulted closely with the Berlin of­fice PSY:PLAN, so that the pro­ject would achieve suc­cess both ar­chi­tec­turally and in terms of psy­cho­log­i­cal per­cep­tion.