架构师提供的文本描述。比利时的建筑实践将搜索引入到创建城市连接的项目中，并设计了一个新的公共领域，介于鲁汶中心、鲁汶车站和邻近的克塞尔-罗村之间，这是一个极度缺乏的地方。

Text description provided by the architects. Belgian architecture practice AR+TE brought SeARCH into the project to create an urban connection and design a new public realm between the center of Leuven, Leuven station and the adjacent village Kessel-Lo which had been desperately lacking.

凯塞尔-洛村与鲁汶市中心的城市布景断绝，并重新连接起来，建造了一座人行天桥和自行车高架桥。通过将公共广场降低到低于街道8米的水平，开发项目获得了两层商业空间，而建筑高度却没有增加(双地面用途)。这额外的商业空间弥补了占用场地现有住房和建造新高架桥的开支。

The Village of Kessel-Lo was cut off from the urban fabric downtown Leuven, and has been reconnected to create a pedestrian bridge and bicycle viaduct links. By lowering the public square 8 meters below street level, the development gains two floors of commercial space without any increase in building height (double ground use). This extra commercial space compensates for the expenditure in appropriating existing housing on the site and the construction of the new viaduct.

 © Hennie Raaymakers

c.Hennie Raaymakers

每天，两万多名行人和骑自行车的人必须通过铁轨下的隧道，然后在穿过繁忙的火星前通过8米的空中通道，然后在另一边下降3米。这个难题是通过简单的引入一个逐渐倾斜的公共广场来解决的，该广场将隧道连接到Martelarenlaan下的凯塞尔-洛。其设计优势有两方面：现有的隧道不再是地下洞穴，而是室外空间的一部分，因为它流入了一个新的、充满活力的公共广场。

 Daily, over 20,000 pedestrians and cyclists had to travel via a tunnel underneath the train tracks and then negotiate an 8 meters acent before crossing the busy Martelarenlaan and then descending 3m on the other side. This Gordian knot was solved by the simple introduction of a gradually sloping public square connecting the tunnel to Kessel-Lo under the Martelarenlaan. The design advantage was twofold: the existing tunnel becomes experienced less as a subterranean burrow and more a part of the outdoor space as it flows out into a new, vibrant public square.

Martelarenlaan下面的渡口不仅变得更加容易，而且变得更加安全。Search还负责75，000平方米范围内的建筑设计，包括900辆汽车和2000辆自行车的停车场、两家有会议设施的酒店、一个2000年容量为九屏的复式公寓、1.8万平方米的办公室、商店、公寓和其他商业空间。

 The crossing underneath the Martelarenlaan has become not only easier, but also much safer. SeARCH is also responsible for the architecture within the 75,000m2 development including parking for 900 cars and 2000 bicycles, two hotels with conference facilities, a 2000 capacity nine-screen multiplex, 18,000m2 of offices, shops, apartments and other commercial space.

 © Hennie Raaymakers

c.Hennie Raaymakers