The Selby Centre
N17
Photographic documentation of existing utilitarian structures at The Selby Centre, serving as a precedent study for urban regeneration and adaptive reuse of mid-century civic architecture.
- What we like about this project
- A tall, weathered concrete chimney rises abruptly behind a single-story red and white band-painted block.
Materials
- metal-panels
- glass
- asphalt
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- metal-panel-cladding
- industrial-chimney
- surface-parking
- utilitarian-facade
Style tags
- utilitarian
- functionalist
- mid-century
Visual tags
- civic
- industrial-heritage
- renovation-candidate
- urban-regeneration
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal blocks with corrugated metal and panelized cladding, punctuated by repetitive window bays and a prominent vertical boiler chimney.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated metal and composite panels with integrated ribbon windows and security grilles.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with lightweight cladding panels
- Spatial scale
- Single and multi-story low-rise institutional or industrial buildings at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under an open sky with sharp shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Pragmatic, unvarnished atmosphere of a working civic and community site awaiting intervention.
- Environmental context
- Suburban industrial or civic site with surface parking and overgrown grass verges.
- Spatial experience
- Gravel and asphalt car park approach leading to utilitarian building elevations and outdoor circulation paths.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window groupings alternating with solid panels across the elevations.
- Style reading
- Utilitarian mid-century civic architecture
- Program
- Community centre / civic facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panels, glass, asphalt, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- metal-panel-cladding, industrial-chimney, surface-parking, utilitarian-facade
- Style tags
- utilitarian, functionalist, mid-century
- Visual tags
- civic, industrial-heritage, renovation-candidate, urban-regeneration
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal blocks with corrugated metal and panelized cladding, punctuated by repetitive window bays and a prominent vertical boiler chimney.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated metal and composite panels with integrated ribbon windows and security grilles.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with lightweight cladding panels
- Spatial scale
- Single and multi-story low-rise institutional or industrial buildings at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under an open sky with sharp shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Pragmatic, unvarnished atmosphere of a working civic and community site awaiting intervention.
- Environmental context
- Suburban industrial or civic site with surface parking and overgrown grass verges.
- Spatial experience
- Gravel and asphalt car park approach leading to utilitarian building elevations and outdoor circulation paths.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window groupings alternating with solid panels across the elevations.
- Style reading
- Utilitarian mid-century civic architecture
- Program
- Community centre / civic facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture