The Medical Campus of the University of Augsburg is being developed in close proximity to the University Hospital Augsburg and spans 78,000 square meters of floor space, featuring modern buildings dedicated to research and teaching. Along a north-south promenade, new constructions, existing buildings, and open spaces such as the patient garden are seamlessly connected. The promenade serves as a central orientation element, providing a clear spatial structure.

An ex­ten­sion of the build­ing wayfind­ing sys­tem was re­quired for Char­ité’s core ren­o­vated and com­pletely mod­ernised Bet­ten­haus and the con­struc­tion of a new build­ing for surg­eries, and in­ten­sive care and emer­gency ser­vices. At first, Moni­teurs was com­mis­sioned to un­der­take an analy­sis. This was fol­lowed by de­vel­op­ing the fa­cade mark­ing of the new emer­gency ser­vices build­ing, the de­vel­op­ment of a com­plete new fam­ily of pic­tograms, the vi­sual guid­ance el­e­ments in the build­ing’s lobby as well as the el­e­va­tor rooms of the 21 floors of the high-rise Bet­ten­haus. The scope of works also in­cluded large-area wall ap­pli­ca­tions for the lobby and wait­ing area.

Pa­tients and guests must feel that they are in good hands in a hos­pi­tal and ori­en­ta­tion con­tributes to this. The Linth Hos­pi­tal in East­ern Switzer­land, be­tween Lake Zurich and Lake Walen, is an im­por­tant med­ical con­tact point with a con­stantly grow­ing num­ber of vis­i­tors. With the plan­ning of an ex­ten­sion build­ing with mod­ern ex­am­i­na­tion and treat­ment ar­eas, it be­came clear that the clinic needed a new, com­pre­hen­sive ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem. Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a con­cept for the new build­ing man­age­ment sys­tem with the guid­ing idea “In­ner life”.

The Hochge­birgsklinik in Davos, Switzer­land, is vis­ited by lung pa­tients from all over the world. The re­sult­ing lin­guis­tic di­ver­sity places great de­mands upon the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem. Moni­teurs de­cided to work en­tirely with­out lan­guage: friendly pic­tograms show the way to each part of the clinic. Moni­teurs cre­ated al­most a hun­dred pic­tograms, many of them spe­cial­ist sym­bols. Since some spaces are used for mul­ti­ple pur­poses, the sys­tem has to be as flex­i­ble as pos­si­ble. There­fore, staff can print out the pic­tograms as and when needed and place them into the ex­ist­ing frames. Floor plans and an ex­plana­tory leaflet in seven lan­guages sup­ple­ment the pic­togram sys­tem.