BayFirst National Bank
The BayFirst Bank project ideates a contemporary solution to one of the company’s financial headquarters in the Sarasota area and a visible icon on US 41. Conceived as both a client-focused building and private workplace, the project maximizes openness and clarity by the development of a glass box punctured by alternating mass volumes.
The size of the lot, and its relative setback limitations, proved to be a great challenge, given the tightness of the site and the necessity of a drive-through service. The project, thus, develops on a square-like profile that implies a certain verticality, allowing for the inclusion of double-height communal spaces and a greater disposition to natural sunlight via wide fenestration. In aid of such effort, the vertical structural elements – namely the columns set at the extremities – are set back of the project’s border, allowing the porous, lightweight feel of the project to be preserved.
Both color palate and textures were pre-established by the client, therefore accentuating the challenge of establishing a level of uniqueness and authenticity in the making of a new branch of an existing brand. The solution became that of adopting the materials and colors as the organizing elements of the masses “disrupting” the glass box module. By the turning of the corner and the breaking of the mullions to mask the horizontal structural system, the glass seems to be held rather than obstructed - the whole suspended rather than stalled.
The resulting project: a modern, functional commercial headquarter that fuses brand tradition with progress while contextually aware of site constraints and local cityscape.
BayFirst National Bank
The BayFirst Bank project ideates a contemporary solution to one of the company’s financial headquarters in the Sarasota area and a visible icon on US 41. Conceived as both a client-focused building and private workplace, the project maximizes openness and clarity by the development of a glass box punctured by alternating mass volumes.
The size of the lot, and its relative setback limitations, proved to be a great challenge, given the tightness of the site and the necessity of a drive-through service. The project, thus, develops on a square-like profile that implies a certain verticality, allowing for the inclusion of double-height communal spaces and a greater disposition to natural sunlight via wide fenestration. In aid of such effort, the vertical structural elements – namely the columns set at the extremities – are set back of the project’s border, allowing the porous, lightweight feel of the project to be preserved.
Both color palate and textures were pre-established by the client, therefore accentuating the challenge of establishing a level of uniqueness and authenticity in the making of a new branch of an existing brand. The solution became that of adopting the materials and colors as the organizing elements of the masses “disrupting” the glass box module. By the turning of the corner and the breaking of the mullions to mask the horizontal structural system, the glass seems to be held rather than obstructed - the whole suspended rather than stalled.
The resulting project: a modern, functional commercial headquarter that fuses brand tradition with progress while contextually aware of site constraints and local cityscape.
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