BTV City Forum in Innsbruck
The headquarters of the “Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg” in Innsbruck is a complex urban building block with a diversity of public functions. A full building height central hall accesses the adjacent gallery and concert hall, an atrium with water garden, and the bank’s training centre. The impressive space receives daylight via a large window oriented towards the north. This “light plough” enables people to experience the view towards the peaks of the Nordkette mountain ridge, also within interior office spaces. The exterior and interior facades are given a rational character via all-together 152 large-format and nearly-square window frames made of reinforced concrete with a visible strength of only 8 cm.
