Zeche Zollverein Unesco World Heritage Site

Zeche Zollverein Unesco World Heritage Site
wayfinding system with touch model for the blind

The former superlative coal mine and Unesco World Heritage site Zeche Zollverein invited tenders from all over Europe to design its park. Teams of landscape architects, artists, lighting and communication designers were supposed to come up with a convincing concept.

Our winning design is a wayfinding system that is especially suitable for this unique site. The challenge of the wayfinding is to answer the needs of 500,000 visitors a year while at the same time cope with the strict regulations of the monument conservation.

The keynote is: silent in terms of quantity – loud in terms of quality. Our design intention is to create a signage system without conventional signs. It is conceived to guide with minimal yet distinctive clues rather than confusing by installing a forest of signs. Touch models for the blind and visually handicapped make the park accessible for this group of visitors.

Zeche Zollverein Park has been carried out a team of communication designers, landscape architects (Planergruppe Oberhausen), artists (Observatorium), lighting designers (Licht Kunst Licht) and communication designers (studio polylog/formerly f1rstdesign).

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touch model for the blind [2], signage and wayfinding system [13]