BANISI aimed to establish a new headquarters that would be more modern, spacious, and reflective of the bank's vision of growth and transformation.
Located across three levels within the PH Evolution building and spanning over 2,700 m², the project integrates two demanding realities into one coherent architecture: a high-performance workplace and a customer-facing branch.
The ground-floor arrival is defined by a light-filled vertical volume. A luminous cube that draws the city inward and sets an atmosphere of clarity and openness from the first step.
Inside, the branch departs from conventional banking formality: the plan is intentionally open and casual, welcoming clients through a café-style area with simple, practical furniture and iPad-based points of interaction.
A sculptural spiral staircase becomes the project’s spatial hinge, linking the branch to the mezzanine while acting as a centerpiece in itself, crafted in oak, toned wood and white Corian, wrapping around a vegetated core that reinforces well-being and continuity between levels.
An in-house wayfinding and signage system was developed for BANISI to keep the experience legible and consistently aligned with the brand.
Conceived as part of the architecture, the system establishes a clear typographic hierarchy, a controlled palette anchored by BANISI’s signature magenta, and a family of custom pictograms that simplify navigation across the branch, mezzanine, and executive levels.
Across the headquarters, neutral surfaces and warm materials establish a calm baseline, while the brand’s signature magenta appears in controlled gestures that guide orientation and reinforce identity without overwhelming the space.
The result is a headquarters that reads as a visual landmark in its context, not through spectacle, but through coherence: a space where collaboration, technology, and service are embedded into the architecture at every turn.
