I have been reading through some theory on adaptive reuse during the past week. Here are some quotes that I found interesting.

“out of the encounter between old envelope and new requirements and means, a unique object will be born- one which is no mere juxtaposition, but a synthesis from the point of view of both construction and architecture”_Claude Soucy

This basically means that the use to which any building has been converted to, has to feature some sort of symbolic content equivalent to that found in the original use.