Paredes de Coura中心银行

公司：	João Marques Franco	类型：	建筑
地区：	葡萄牙	标签：	商业空间

该银行位于城市转型的边缘。一边是历史悠久的Paredes de Coura中心，这是一个位于葡萄牙西北部的美丽村庄，另一边是一系列80年代和90年代的建筑，因为在那个时期城市对建筑师的需求是可有可无的，在许多情况下，甚至是不受欢迎的，因为这些建筑是葡萄牙城市景观的一大败笔。

The bank is located on the verge of an urban transition. On one side the historic center of Paredes de Coura, a beautiful village on the northwestern part of Portugal, on the other an array of buildings from the 80’s and 90’s, tragic decades for Portuguese urban landscape as the need for an architect was optional and, in many cases, unwanted.

那么如何帮助弥补这一差距？是尝试着从杂乱的城市景观中脱颖而出？还是让这个新建筑消隐在建筑中？也许两者兼而有之？

How can you help bridge that gap? Will you try to stand out? Should this new building disappear? Maybe both.

客户希望建筑有一个些透明的元素，以吸引人们进入银行，因此所有的底层都是玻璃，人们可以从广场上看到一切。如果你想和你的客户经理说话，你要做的就是经过这里，挥挥手，在这样一个小社区里，这一点尤为重要。而另一方面，银行应该有很强的安全感，像金库一样，所以第二层是实心的，没有窗户，也进行了高架。

The bank wanted a sign of transparency, an invitation to enter, to that end all of the ground level is glass, you can see everything from the square, in such a small community that is especially important, if you want to speak to your account manager all you have to do is pass by and wave. One the other end a bank should feel safe, vault like, so the first level is solid and windowless, elevated, out of reach.

项目曲线试图在两座城市之间播种某种联系，它被涂成了白色。如果你在小巧而多彩的19世纪建筑和90年代 "用假大理石想怎么建就怎么建"的热潮之间，你还能选择什么？也许是借口，或者是没有勇气。也许是我挑不出颜色。我倒是无所谓。也可能是我毕竟想让楼房脱颖而出，那么这一栋纯白色的建筑能做到了吗？

The curve tries to sow some sort of connection between the two cities, and it’s painted in white. What else can you choose if you are between small and colorful 19th century architecture and the ‘build all you want in fake marble’ craze of the 90’s? Maybe that’s an excuse or lack of courage. Maybe it’s my inability to pick a color. I’m fine with that. Or maybe I wanted the building to stand out after all. Can a plain white building do that?