colours of nowhere – motorway toilets, standard design model, lower saxony 2012
oker, drachenberg and schunter, places in germany. normally you pay them no heed as you drive by, rushing through space and time. but sometimes nature calls and you just have to stop – and then, what do you find? landscape, hills and valleys, visualised as a map, a different colour for each altitude level. at each of these places the design depicts the specific location – in a way that also renders graffiti redundant. these redesigned motorway toilets are gradually becoming a regular sight.
motorway toilets
standard design model, lower saxony 2012
client:
staatliches baumangement weser-leine
project team:
benjamin brinkmann
jan paul gaugler
raoul gottschling
angela klasar
julian körner
christian lindermann
philipp schäfer
justyna sikora
katrin theile
thanh-thao tran
hannah witte
andreas uebele
architect:
gruppeomp architektengesellschaft mbH
www.gruppeomp.de
photos:
christian richters
www.christianrichters.de
awards:
- german design award 2015, nominee
- german design award 2014, nominee
- if communication design award 2013, auszeichnung
- deutscher designer club (ddc), gute gestaltung 13, bronze






