The sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy com­pany Merck is ex­pand­ing its Darm­stadt site into a global head­quar­ters. The his­toric in­dus­trial site is turn­ing into a “Merck City”: state-of-the-art in­fra­struc­ture, a new In­no­va­tion Cen­ter and new, mod­ern pro­duc­tion and of­fice build­ings cre­ate an in­no­v­a­tive work­ing en­vi­ron­ment for over 10,000 em­ploy­ees. In ad­di­tion, the fam­ily busi­ness cel­e­brated its 350-year an­niver­sary at the cen­tral, re­designed Emanuel-Merck-Platz in May 2018!

In close co­op­er­a­tion (what we call co-cre­at­ing!) with Merck and the ar­chi­tec­ture of­fice HENN, who de­vel­oped a mas­ter plan for the plant and planned the In­no­va­tion Cen­ter, Moni­teurs de­signed an over­ar­ch­ing ori­en­ta­tion con­cept: out­door and in­door sig­nage as strong brand el­e­ments serve as ori­en­ta­tion on the Merck plant.

Within the frame­work of a pub­licly an­nounced com­pe­ti­tion, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a de­sign con­cept for mo­bil­ity sta­tions in the Mu­nich area.

A “mo­bil­ity sta­tion” links dif­fer­ent mo­bil­ity of­fers at one lo­ca­tion. The aim is to sup­port mul­ti­modal trans­port be­hav­ior, i.e. to sim­plify the tran­si­tion be­tween dif­fer­ent means of trans­port, to strengthen en­vi­ron­men­tally com­pat­i­ble means of trans­port and to en­able mo­bil­ity with­out a pri­vate car.

Moni­teur's de­sign con­cept in­cluded cor­po­rate de­sign and brand­ing, as well as prod­uct lines for ste­les and sig­nage for the mo­bil­ity sta­tions. The planned mea­sure is to serve the im­proved vis­i­bil­ity and ac­ces­si­bil­ity of shared mo­bil­ity of­fers.