Tilane, Cultural center in Paderno Dugnano, Italy.

Tilane is a public library and cultural centre in Paderno Dugnano, built in reinforced concrete clad in solid brick, with about 4,000 square metres of floor space. The library occupies 2,500 square metres and holds roughly 50,000 volumes and 200 seats; the rest houses exhibition areas, workshops, an auditorium, classrooms, computer stations and children's and teenagers' rooms.

In 2006 the municipality chose to recover a disused industrial area because the library at Villa Gargantini had become too small. The site had held a textile factory that could not be restored, but Gae Aulenti kept its gate and structural module in her design. The library opened on 3 May 2009.

Tilane hosts meetings, exhibitions, events and courses for different age groups, as the library and cultural centre of Paderno Dugnano. The library moved here from Villa Gargantini, whose rooms no longer met the city's demand for study and information space. The building keeps the gate and the structural module of the textile factory that once stood on the site.

The library occupies 2,500 of the building's 4,000 square metres, with 200 seats and about 50,000 volumes. The remaining space holds exhibition areas, workshops, an auditorium, classrooms, PC stations and Wi-Fi. The gate and structural module of the former textile factory were kept.

Gae Aulenti kept the gate and the structural module of the former textile factory in her design, so the industrial origin survives in the new building. The site had been judged impossible to renovate before the 2006 recovery programme.