架构师提供的文本描述。以前在Aalst的邮局工地是前“运河纤维”的工业建筑的混合体。“档案”

Text description provided by the architects. The former post office site in Aalst was a mixture of industrial buildings of the former ‘Filature du Canal’. The “Filatures & Urban Fabric(s): Masterplan stationsomgeving Aalst” masterplan, designed by the Christian Kieckens Architects, started from a site conversion, whilst keeping the main building of the former mill in the Manchester building along the Vaartstraat. The modifications to this building have been kept to a minimum because of organisational and programmatic interpretation, which corresponds with the scale of the building. The facades have been cleaned and re-pointed and equipped with new outside joinery work after its historical model. The building has been renovated on the inside also, in order for it to comply with current regulations, without however interfering with the warehouse’s authenticity.

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(Thomas De Bruyne)

新的办公大楼是条形单元，插入南北方向，保证了办公室最好的东西方向。这些建筑物垂直于线性基础设施要素(如丹德河、铁路线和道路)，加强了对建筑物的动力感知，并在老工厂单元的背景下形成了新建筑在有吸引力的现代建筑中的动态形象。这座建筑使用公共内部道路分成两部分，这创造了一条通往火车和汽车站的捷径。建筑物的主要入口就在这条公共内部道路上。

The new office blocks are strip shaped units, inserted in a north-south direction, guaranteeing the best east-west direction for the offices. The buildings are built perpendicularly onto the linear infrastructure elements (such as the river Dender, the railway line and the roads), strengthening its kinetic perception and resulting in a dynamic image of new buildings in an attractive, modern architecture against a backdrop of old factory units. The building is cut in two using a public internal road, which creates a shortcut to the train and bus station. It is on this public internal road that the main entrances to the buildings are located.

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(Thomas De Bruyne)

办公地带可分为面积约500平方米的较小实体，以确保最灵活的办公空间，并有可能将办公空间租给若干公共和(或)私人办公室用户。从会议室到驾驶舱，再到开放式办公室，电脑楼层和较低、激活的天花板都能让办公室空间得到不同的利用。曼彻斯特现有的大楼以其重量和坚固性为特点，而新的办公条则是轻巧、充满活力和透明度的。他们被解释为主要是玻璃单位，配备有彩色板条的百叶窗。这些石板是建筑层周围的第二层立面，是彩色的纺织品，同时也代表了这个工厂的工业历史。Werfplein正面是唯一可以从正面看到的正面。在这里，彩色石板被强化，只是偶尔被大窗户打断，可以看到沃费普林河。

The office strips can be divided into smaller entities of ca 500 m², guaranteeing the very best flexibility and the possibility to lease office space to several public and/or private office users. The raised computer floors and lowered, activated ceilings enable different uses of its office space, from meeting rooms and cockpits to open plan offices. Whereas the existing Manchester building is characterised by its weight and solidity, the new office strips are light, full of dynamism and transparency. They were interpreted as mostly glass units, equipped with blinds with coloured slats. These slats are kind of a second façade around the layer of buildings, patches of coloured textile as it were, referencing at the same time to the industrial past of this site as a mill. The Werfplein facade is the only facade which can be seen from the front. Here the coloured slats are intensified and only sporadically interrupted by big windows with a view on the Werfplein.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图