Parking garage »EnergieParkhaus«A Candid Wayfinding-System

  • Exterior view of the parking garage, type was applied on the windows of the building structure
    Exterior view of the parking garage, type was applied on the windows of the building structure

Signage for EnergieParkhaus Neckarpark, a parking garage in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, designed by ‘asp’ Architekten. The parking garage serves the residents as a paring garage for cars and bikes, as well as ensuring the heat supply of the new neighbourhood via an integrated energy center.

  • Facts about the area enrich the visitor experience in and around the garage
    Facts about the area enrich the visitor experience in and around the garage
  • Big stencil arrows and letters are essential elements of the wayfinding
    Big stencil arrows and letters are essential elements of the wayfinding

The parking garage has five floors and space for 344 vehicles. The distinctive shell of the building lead us to a prominent design solution that was applied directly to the various surfaces of the building.

  • The concrete cones were painted red to give the typography a baseline grid
    The concrete cones were painted red to give the typography a baseline grid

The repetitive nature of the fair-faced concretes’ very own locking cones was used as a grid for the stencil typography.

  • Floor plans that were printed on the concrete walls give the visitor the bigger picture
    Floor plans that were printed on the concrete walls give the visitor the bigger picture
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The garage also has space for 185 bicycles, the space is accessible from the outside; big pictograms lead the way.

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Details

Client Hochbauamt der Stadt Stuttgart [Building authority of the City of Stuttgart]
Partners 'asp' Architekten, Studio Tillack Knöll
Technique Silkscreen