The FIZ Re­search and In­no­va­tion Cen­tre in Mu­nich is the heart of the world­wide re­search and de­vel­op­ment net­work of the BMW Group. Built in 1986, the area has grown con­sid­er­ably, ex­pand­ing into the sur­round­ing ur­ban space and be­com­ing more com­pact in or­der to pro­vide space for the ap­prox­i­mately 25,000 peo­ple who work there. In 2015, HENN de­vel­oped a mas­ter­plan to of­fer a vi­sion up to the year 2050. More trans­par­ent, bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion, di­rect routes and con­nec­tions to the city quar­ters should cre­ate op­ti­mal con­di­tions for the fu­ture, a cre­ative at­mos­phere which favours the in­no­va­tion and in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary na­ture of the fields – or­gan­ised along a cen­tral axis.

Der Neu­bau des Pots­dam-In­sti­tuts für Kli­ma­fol­gen­for­schung be­fin­det sich auf dem Te­le­gra­fen­berg in Pots­dam, ei­nem der his­to­risch und in­ter­na­tio­nal be­deu­ten­den Wis­sen­schafts­stand­or­te. Ent­wor­fen wur­de das Ge­bäu­de vom Ar­chi­tek­tur­bü­ro BH­BVT, die es so kon­zi­pier­ten, dass es sich in den Wald har­mo­nisch ein­fügt. Es be­steht nur aus flie­ßen­den For­men, ein kreis­för­mi­ges Atri­um ver­bin­det die drei run­den Bau­tei­le. 200 Wis­sen­schaft­ler aus al­ler Welt for­schen hier seit Ok­to­ber 2015. Mo­ni­teurs hat das Farb­kon­zept der Ar­chi­tek­tur, die Ko­die­rung der drei Bau­tei­le mit ver­schie­de­nen leuch­ten­den Far­ben im Leit­sys­tem auf­ge­grif­fen und durch eine as­so­zia­ti­ve No­men­kla­tur ver­stärkt. Der iko­nen­haf­te Grund­riss zieht sich über alle Stock­wer­ke und dient als Farb­mar­kie­rung, die in dem sym­me­tri­schen Raum we­sent­li­cher An­halts­punkt für Ori­en­tie­rung ist.

In ad­di­tion to the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped in­ter­faces for touch pan­els to con­trol me­dia and room tech­nics in the new In­no­va­tion Cen­ter at the Merck Cam­pus. These con­trol sys­tems were mounted in meet­ing rooms and co-work­ing spaces, as well in the restau­rant, and had to ful­fil dif­fer­ent needs and re­quire­ments, for in­stance to con­trol the mu­sic in the restau­rant or to start a pre­sen­ta­tion in one of the meet­ing rooms.

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.