The new headquarters for 'banca popolare etica' by tamassociati makes manifest an architecture that expresses the insitution's commitment to accessible finance and ethically oriented banking. the company's pointed awareness of the non-economic consequences of economicactions is reflected in the sensitivity of the new edifice to existing 'liberty style' structures.
This italian iteration of art nouveau isparticular in its use of sculptural tendrils and moldings as well as particularly elegant sinuous forms. the headquarters abstracts these ideasinto a responsive building, taking care to follow the intersecting curved volumes into public green areas that additionally regulate energyconsumption and harmful emissions. the poetry of the richly grained wood cladding punctured by orthogonal apertures appropriatelyexpresses the bank's operation theory of maximum transparency as a main condition of a financial institution working towardcollective well-being.