基于“空间规划”的适应性再利用:荷兰蒂尔堡的“机车棚” 图书馆 - Adaptive Reuse Through "Raumplan": LocHal in Tilburg, the Netherlands

The new LocHal cultural centre is located centrally in the industrial town of Tilburg in the Netherlands, close to its main railway station, which has recently been modernised. The railway track, which runs from east to west axis, cuts the town right in half. Built overhead, it fits into the urban morphology like an unnatural, artificial landmark, creating a real physical division between north and south. A system of pedestrian and bicycle underpasses connects the area around the railway station to the south, densely characterised by three-four-storey buildings, with the area to the north, which is undergoing extensive transformation and where buildings of various types are distributed in a more widespread urban space. The functional mix transforms the old railway shed into a real urban space where people can gather. The fact that it is strategically located close to the station and in a low-density area makes it an easily recognisable place central to the neighbourhood, with the task of overcoming the physical division of the urban fabric caused by the overhead railway line. The effectiveness of the project can be summed up, according to the authors, in three actions: the exaltation and pragmatic reuse of the existing load-bearing structure, the “parasitic” inclusion of new volumes inside it, creating separate spaces for different uses and, above all, on different levels, so that they are visually and spatially connected and, lastly, a refined flexibility of the environments obtained thanks to the precise insertion of mobile textile partitions that can be used to create different planimetric and spatial configurations, if necessary.