The Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port is one of the largest and most com­plex trans­port in­fra­struc­ture pro­jects in Ger­many. The build­ing was de­signed by the renowned ar­chi­tects gmp and JSK In­ter­na­tional. Moni­teurs was al­ready ac­tively in­volved in the pro­ject at the com­pe­ti­tion phase for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­sign, and by de­grees was com­mis­sioned to de­sign the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the air­port in­clud­ing its sur­round­ings. A key de­sign fea­ture is the colour red, un­usual for air­ports. This gives clear sig­nals for ori­en­ta­tion, and also har­monises with the ar­chi­tec­ture, with its warm tones of wood and nat­ural stone. At the same time, it is mod­elled on the ap­pear­ance of its home states of Berlin and Bran­den­burg. In many places, the signs are di­rectly em­bed­ded into the ar­chi­tec­tural pan­els – some flow around the cor­ner, and this con­cept is wo­ven into the prod­uct de­sign of the signs out­side the build­ing.

Moni­teurs has re­vised the Ter­mi­nal Plan Ter­mi­nal 1 and Ter­mi­nal 2 in close co­op­er­a­tion with Frank­furt Air­port. Re­duced in con­tent, easy to read and clear, it helps pas­sen­gers to get an overview of the build­ings and lev­els. The most im­por­tant des­ti­na­tions and means of trans­port are shown, as well as the con­nec­tion to the rail­way. Gates and air­lines are as­signed to the two ter­mi­nals at a few se­lected lo­ca­tions in the build­ings, back­lit, al­ways in con­junc­tion with the air­line overview.

Struc­tural ex­ten­sions, new path­ways and in­creas­ing in­for­ma­tion den­sity re­quire the grad­ual op­ti­miza­tion of the guid­ance and ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, which has a long tra­di­tion at Zurich Air­port. The streams of vis­i­tors at Zurich Air­port are com­plex, as the dif­fer­ent source and des­ti­na­tion points at dif­fer­ent lev­els cre­ate a par­tic­u­larly large num­ber of path­ways.

In the build­ings Ter­mi­nal 1, Fo­rum of the Mu­nich Air­port Cen­ter (MAC) and Cen­tral Build­ing, the sig­nage is no longer uni­form and the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem has grown his­tor­i­cally over the years. Tech­ni­cal re­quire­ments and pas­sen­ger ex­pec­ta­tions have in­creas­ingly changed.