Banca Briantea Como

Glass, steel and light are the protagonists of a functional reorganization of a portion of the building in Viale Innocenzo XI in Como, where a space that was once occupied by shops was transformed into a banking company, with an intervention that was far from easy. The headquarters of the Banca Briantea is articulated over approximately 1700 square meters of surface, spread over three floors of which one on the ground and two underground, with a development that is exactly the opposite of the traditional one that has the offices above and not below the hall with the desks. In this case, the conditioning of the existing building gave rise to an appreciable originality of building solutions, which nevertheless gave the bank a precise and coherent physiognomy. The first problem to be addressed was to create a façade capable on one side to fit without traumatic ruptures in a building already endowed with its own characteristics and the other to give it a specific individuality. The choice was to "open" from the inside to the outside with a series of large square-shaped glazed surfaces with bevelled corners, framed by large stainless steel strips, essentially creating a sort of immediate permeability between the Bank and the external environment, particularly "vibrant" and popular due to the centrality of the area and the presence of a car park.