7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. About IFLA IX
4. Preface 1
5. Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses
6. 1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse 7
7. 2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival 18
8. 3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably 32
9. Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries
10. 4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney’s Inner West Community 57
11. 5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library’s John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada 77
12. 6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library 92
13. 7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany 105
14. 8 Building Community Through Transforming 17^th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany 122
15. 9 The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany 134
16. 10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona’s Les Corts Neighbourhood Library 152
17. 11 Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland 167
18. 12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands 179
19. 13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library 192
20. Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries
21. 14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium 213
22. 15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany 228
23. 16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany 241
24. 17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany 253
25. 18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University 269
26. 19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons 286
27. 20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome 304
28. 21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia 319
29. 22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 336
30. Appendix
31. Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents 357
32. Contributors 370