Community banks are becoming more and more scarce as banks as physical architecture are becoming unnecessary. They therefore require a more thoughtful approach. This began with a generic floor plan and an image processing technique called seam carving: an image reduction process which was adapted as a formal strategy. It became an atypical way to scale down the bank while creating new relationships within, rather than the same ones on a smaller scale. Large chunks of a typical floor plan extrusion were carved out, the remaining pieces put back together, and areas of the floor on each level were eliminated. These subtractive processes created a variety of openings throughout the building, located along the seams. They could be purely visual, occupiable like a doorway, or could result in the conflation of entire rooms. Together with the openings in the floor plates, these formal strategies achieved visibility across plan and section, which is uncommon in a typical bank. The juxtaposition of the original orthogonal plan and the angle of the seam creates a secondary sidedness to the bank, one facing the more urban corner of the site, where the upper floors of the bank provide covered entry, and the other facing the park program on site where the shear of the form results in terracing balconies that descend to the park. The hard edges of the original extrusion start to dissolve as a result of the seam carving process as well. Whether you are approaching from the city or the park, you begin to interact with the building without ever going inside. The formal strategies deployed produce a lot of new architectural relationships, but ultimately provide a framework or set of parameters for more nuanced design. Though the resulting building is not so easy to read, the visual connections within create an informal atmosphere that encourages the community aspect of the bank.