International project
Bibliotheek Zoersel
Zoersel is a Belgian town surrounded and infiltrated by a busy highway and
transit road. Among the terraced houses is the library, an urban intervention for
public space aiming to encompass and symbolize all the public needs required
by a town in one. Blending in and standing out, the library is built in brick and
its scale refers to that of neighboring buildings. It is distinguished by a dancing
roof structure and its black glistening brick facade.
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rehabilitation of the site
‘Pleintje’ in Zoersel, where the new library was
built, made part of a broader public competition with the aim of
revitalizing the entire central area of the town. Standing as a symbol of the
town’s ambitions for the entire development, the first