The
new Raiffeisenbank am Rigi is explicitly integrated into the urban structure of
Küssnacht. The four-storey volume supplements the existing buildings along
Bahnhofstrasse in a measured way and has a refined, precise expression. The
main façade’s diagonal line reacts to the course of the street and receives
customers with a covered entrance on the ground floor. A two-storey incision to
the west structures the volume. Offices are organised on the ground floor and
two upper storeys, with an apartment in the attic. A constructive gown of
rectangular artificial stone girders envelops the precise volume. The façade
structure becomes a design element by varying both the distance between the
supports and the storey heights. Fine monolithic terrazzo continues the shell’s
material concept in the interior and is flanked by atmospheric walnut veneer
and reserved textiles. Both the bank’s flooring and polished concrete façade
subtly recall sedimentary conglomerate rock, the native Rigi stone.