Background
Client
Bremer Bank
Year
2019-2021
Service
Architectural Design
Brief
The Bremer Bank in Fargo, North Dakota was a renovation of an existing bank - with its focus mostly being on interiors. It was one of the first banks Snow Kreilich Architects was tasked to redesign. We followed the Bremer Playbook - a book of design guidelines that Snow Kreilich Architects developed for the bank’s entire system and branding efforts.
Project Summary
The Approach
The design team, focusing on creating a more expansive and experiential space for all, reoriented the branch’s current customer area to be along the southern bay – where daylight is aplenty. We then carved three floor openings as a means to connect the first and second floors – lending the interior to be more interconnected, dynamic, and flexible. These openings are highlighted with double-height wood screen walls – relating the bank itself back to its surrounding context.
The Programming
To create an even more inviting customer experience, the bank's traditional teller lines were replaced with an open plaza featuring multiple points of interaction, including "partner tables" for improved service. Directly above the first-floor greeting area, where bank employees work and convene, is an array of public and semi-private meeting spaces and workstations with demountable wall systems dispersed throughout. This whole area maintains visual connection to the customer plaza below.
Details
Body
The redesign of the typical teller line creates a more casual, interdependent dynamic between customer and banker. Incorporating the plaza spaces prioritizes the customer and respective community. By rethinking the banking experience, we can create a space that is more accessible, equitable, and encourages financial goals and growth.
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