The front of house had to be reshape to receive an additional teller location, a new meeting room, and a relocated supervisor desk. The back of house was rearranged for a reconfigured staff kitchen and an expanded storage area.

To accentuate the richness of the wood in our project, Green and Yellow were selected to identify our new Meeting Room. Anchored on the new floor plan, these colours codify a new functional space which has been provided with a folding glass door for flexibility during public or private uses.

The concept of “Material Continuity” refers to a materials ability to link objects, functions, and spaces to make their parts a whole. Wood was used strategically as a connecting element to provide such links in our project.

The functional program is structured around a long folded wood plane. This material continuity strategy was introduced as a unifying element where different segments merge into a continuous shape. The shape anchors the scheme by absorbing a structural concrete column condition, articulating the banks circulation and private office areas, and encapsulating functional elements such as the new meeting room and safety deposit box viewing area.

Three reconfigured glass offices surround the Reception Hall at our Retail Bank Renovation. To increase the quantity of natural light entering the space, additional glass sidelights were added at the solid perpendicular offices dividing walls. This approach further articulates the main glass wall as a boundary and increases the transparent surface area for natural light to enter.