Program

The program consists of three main hubs:

Bank - clients e.g. private insolvency *cellular spaces*

Headquarters - including a museum/infopool on the company and on micro loans *spaces with high transparency*

Short term living - for the visiting employees from branches in other countries *private spaces*

The Program creates a diverse circulation, different access points with different levels of security.

Section diagram

Section diagram: the ornament will become the rooms, which will also articulate themselves on the outside surface of the block facade

Architectural reference Wall House #2/Bye House by John Hejduk:

Site analysis

Site analysis, client: Planet Finance

Massing strategy, program analysis

Volumetric Ornament

I developed a method of drafting, cutting, folding and modelling, that I now want to bring into an architectural scale:

Unfolding drawings

Plan using a circle packing algorithm for the 50x70cm test model

New precedents

Frauenschuh - the alpine orchid

Interesting folding as well as patterning and some evilness

Model building ♥'s messy

Introduction

First Task is to find an approach to the ambivalence of the security and transparency issues in a bank building. My proposal is a decorated block as the traditional bank typology that is engaged and transformed by it's ornament from the inside outward. According to this diagram i will develope a technique of articulation and volumetric forming to establish new relationships with the urban surrounding and the inside spaces of the building.

Diagram: ornament engaging the block, pop-up effect to celebrate opening of the case

Precedents: aesthetic ambitions, next step: volumetric ornament

Unfolded plan and model pics

Bibliography

Texts I'm interested in this term:

Aranda and Lasch; Tooling
Douglis; Argument for Ornament
Lynn and Rappolt; Greg Lynn Form
Moussavi; The Function of Ornament
Reiser and Umemoto; Atlas of Novel Tectonics
Sachs; Nature Design
Vidler; From Anything to Biothing

Studio Research

From the studio research I chose the "decorated block" as my typological starting point:

Louis Sullivan, Merchants National Bank, 1914