The Banco Anglo branch in Limón explores architecture as a continuous, heavy, sculptural system — emotionally charged and symbolic in a way that confronts the rational program it houses: a bank branch complemented by two residential apartments. The formal intensity is amplified by the Caribbean light of Limón, which produces extreme contrasts of light and shadow across the sculpted surfaces.
The upper floor holds the residential program in an L-configuration that extends outward as protection for the floor below, then folds back into the volume to become a single unified object — eliminating the typical discontinuity of the eave. Along the street facades, the upper floor creates a double skin: an outer layer perforated with repetitive horizontal ellipses, and an inner glazed facade immediately behind it. The space between them reinvents the vernacular balcony of Limón as a contemporary intermediate zone — neither interior nor exterior — resolved this time through inclined planes and punctual skylights rather than the traditional open corridor. The massing toward the interior of the block shifts to a more horizontal scale, where the roofs and their gargoyles become the dominant element.
The concern for formal continuity extends to the roof itself, where the ridge is reinterpreted not as the meeting of two separate planes but as a curved shoulder that unifies both faces of the roof into a single surface. At the corner, the main roof is partially subtracted to insert a flat slab punctuated by skylights whose truncated cone geometry widens as it descends, expanding the daylight entry into the interior below.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​