Contribution to Die Bank, Three Architectural Concepts for the Future
The Bank is a fictive project with a fictive client, a fictive programme, and without a fixed location. It gave us the opportunity to think about the transformation brought by the spread of computers to every area of office work, whether in banks, insurance offices or elsewhere. Although changes in office decor in the course of the century have repeatedly been dictated by contemporary fashions and attitudes, computerisation of the workplace has brought a fundamental move away from the static perception of the office, towards the idea of a workshop equipped with all sorts of highly specialised tools and, simultaneously, towards the idea of the office as a place to live in, almost a private corner. It is not our intention to analyse the various aspects of this new view of office work, or to predict its future. To do this, we would first have to understand the market mechanisms of the business world. The precise effects of computerisation on man’s living space can only be imagined. But we need an architectural project to give concrete shape to our idea. How will the Bank of the Future look like?
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