1. Research into the integration of the project
In this project we had to work with consideration to the communal rules, the place, and the contextual relationship. Evolving largely in respect to these three points the project developed into four general characteristics: A project of the materiality of concrete, an introduction and dialogue between local stone and concrete, a wooden finishing, and a wooden beam cover.
2. Reinterpretation of local materials
Following discussions with the local council the project evolved through the use of walls of local stone as structural elements of the space. (From the façade to the interior) and through the use of old traditional wood constructions reinterpreted: wood assembly (Beams) for the construction of the cover.
3. Conceptual approach
The location of the building to be renovated and transformed, at the intersection of the Central Square and the Street of Creux, implied an articulation of the façade as a response. And the function of the building as Cantonal bank, as an institutional building implied a distinction from the surrounding buildings.