Hypo Alpe-Adria Center is one of the two bank complex Morphosis commissioned for Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank in Austria. The bank complex consists of an office block, commercial space, archive, staff residence and a kindergarten, located at Klagenfurt suburb, away from the city centre, which contains a border condition of coalition between urban sprawl and agricultural area. This edge condition triggers the architect’s intention to mediate the complex between these two extreme typologies, by breaking down the complex into different scales of volumes that make reference to the large shopping malls and tiny suburban
houses nearby. Thus the power of the modern day bank is the dematerialization and integration of transaction into the everyday. In these series of drawings we explore the effects of a bank building no longer defined as singular autonomous monument, and rather there is a shift of power to the momentum of inter-connectivity with the social and built context. We focused on the southwest public entrance and also the bank branch sitting within the atrium of the five-storey high mass as the heart and centre of the complex. Their relationships in respective to facade, organisation, urban context, and grounding are calmly and carefully dissected throughout the four drawings.