2017 · Rabobank Maarsen · Biosphere
Rabobank Maarsen The assignment: design and build a new bank interior. The constraint: use only materials harvested from a decommissioned bank elsewhere in the same village. Safety deposit box fronts, modular filing systems, and storage units were dismantled and function-shifted into spatial dividers, acoustic walls, and architectural surfaces. The recognizable yellow security boxes retain their material identity while operating as textural elements. Value cassettes transform into three-dimensional wall reliefs. The interior mechanisms of security locks became embedded motifs in the espresso bar table top—vault technology transformed into surface pattern. This closed-loop intervention demonstrates hyperlocal circularity where components travel meters rather than kilometers. Old bank becomes new bank. Village material remains village material.
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