Elly Selby Selected Works
Elly Indira Selby OAA Intern Architect M.Arch, BA Architectural Studies LEED Green Associate ellyselby@gmail.com +1-647-965-9441 Toronto, Canada
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Ver[on]acity
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FedeltĂ
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The New Generic Hotel
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Proposal for 3000 Inhabitants in Phnom Pehn
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Toronto Urban Culture Centre
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Advisor: John Shnier M.Arch Thesis, 2018 4
Ver[on]acity
There are no post-digital originals. In the post-digital, we can free ourselves from traditional notions of the original; and therefore, the prejudice of resolution. The aura persists. There is no degradation only gradation. The copy exists in a spectrum of authenticities. The palpable process of transference creates an index of genuineness and a history of the image. Verona, Italy clings to embedded yet tenuous associations with the literary narratives of Shakespeare and Dante, contriving its own authority to image until the indeterminacy of its origin becomes the crux of its aura. It is the palimpsest of fiction that is in a constant process of producing the authentic Verona. This investigation of gradation through reproduction presents impressions of Verona as a vehicle of iterative exploration. 5
Chiostro Inchiostro
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Fresco-etching, created by pouring wet plaster onto an inked etching plate and allowing to cure. Photographed as displayed, next to printing studies in starch.
Chiostro Inchiostro Inverted etching, unconventionally printed in relief by laying wet rice paper on top of a clean plate, rolling ink directly onto the paper, revealing the texture of the plate.
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Linocut plate depicting Castelvecchio
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Opposite (top to bottom): Capolavoro di Scarpa, Casa di Cangrande, Castelvecchio, Porta di Purgatorio, Castello Fantasma
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Hand built etching press, kinetically displaying 35’ continuous elevation of Verona. All prints were produced using this custom press, allowing for the control (and simultaneous lack of precision) in the result of each printed edition. 10
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Printer’s tray, containing the plates and tools used to produce the prints, displayed alongside the finished works; artifacts of Verona. Opposite: Excerpts of the continous elevation of Verona (1’x35’)
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Advisor: John Shnier M.Arch III, 2018 14
FedeltĂ
Through an explicit absence of the whole, Villa Adriana is confidently ambiguous: its ruinous state obscures its original form, instead allowing for the projection of its occupant’s fantasies of myriad pasts. The indecipherabilty of hermeneutic, gestural fragments heightens the fantastical, curious nature of the sprawling villa. In parallel with the veneration and deification of Antinous, a fragmented, incomplete history amplifies a seductive mystification of the subject matter. The ruins of Villa Adriana form a critical foundation for this series of varying degrees of fidelity; a catalogue of many truths.
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la biblioteca greca
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Ruins interpreted as the Greek Library, claiming authenticity via the authoritative seriousness of the drawing convention (and the liberal use of inventive, Italian-ish nomenclature).
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la sala dei filosofi The conviciton of monochromatic orthographic & poche are undermined as the Sala transforms in a manner similar to a children’s pop-up book, playfully suggesting a spectrum of interpretations of Villa Adriana. 19
Il Grande Terme 20
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Il Terme con Heliocaminus Il Heliocaminus reappears in various forms throughout the Fedelta folio, transfiguring from a fragment of a shell, to a Boulee-esque bath, filling with water, submerging in the Peschiera, sprouting roots, and becoming an organic-like bulb. This reappearance cheekily demands a perpetual reevaluation of the veracity of each convincing fiction. 22
FIX UP
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Advisor: Adrian Phiffer M.Arch III, 2017 24
The New Generic Hotel
Stripped of the preset rituals of “home”, the hotel room condition is one of potentially socially deviant expression. An opportunity for slovenliness, exhibitionism, the aptly-designed room can give rise to a truly individual experience. Sited at Chicago’s Navy Pier, the aggregation of 1000 room units comprises a fulcrum of the interacting group and the isolated individual. The façade concept explores losses and gains in the re-presentation of an image as it is transposed between media. The initial creation of the concept model relied on and anticipated the inaccuracies of printmaking as a method of transference. The processing of the artifact, moving from the original to its generated simulacrum then became a celebration of imperfect reproductions. The paired facades establish a polarity of the urbane and the sublime, the space between which comprises the hotel. 25
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Section through narrow hotel, pier, and existing heritage ballroom. Opposite: Site plan detail, or: the beginnging of my obsession with manipulation and interpretation of orthographic convention. 27
West
West elevation. Glazing reveals repetitive corridors facing Chicago and ballroom behind the tower. 28
Illustration of corridors. 29
Illustration of rooms. 30
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East elevation with ballroom. Facade concept derived from printmaking, describing repetition without automation. 31
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Typical A 2-7 Typical B 8-43 Eating & Drinking 44
Floor plans of the narrow hotel. Opposite: Model view of hotel room with irregular window aperature derived from printmaking.
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Project Team: Ludovico Centis and Tomasso Petrosino Professional Work at The Empire, 2018 Competition for the United Nations Development Program & Building Trust International 34
Phnom Penh Housing Competition
Located 20km from the rapidly urbanizing city centre, the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone is characterized by burgeoning industries, 17,000 workers, and a river-adjacent, flood-prone landscape. These characteristics necessitate a local, dense, affordable housing scheme that carefully considers its sensitive environmental position. Phnom Penh’s climate ossiclates between torrential rainfall, flooding the city’s infrastructure and ground-level structures, and intense, dry heat. This project seeks to moderate this extreme weather cycle by establishing effective rainwater management infrastructure and utilizing passive, local building strategies. Phnom Penh is comprised of two contrasting urban forms: densely planned formal developments, and informal commercial and residential settlements. This dyadic pair defines the dual characters of this proposal: a lively, informally planned ground floor, and rigorous, efficient residential storeys.
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Ground Floor Plan
Bamboo
Concrete
Native Grasses
Concrete Pavers
Canals
Asphalt
0m 2m
10m 20m
1m 5m
Ground Floor Plan The flexible ground floor network echoes the thriving, informal markets of the Phnom Penh city centre, mirroring local tradition to foster social and economic sustainability within the housing development itself. 36
Typical Residential Floor Plan
P a a s c s u e c d c e c a c s
T s g d s k b s e c a o b r 1
0m 2m 1m 5m
10m 20m
Potential Elevator Location
Second Floor Plan By lifting the first floor of residential units off the ground plane, the potential for home flooding is eradicated, while establishing a free ground floor plan across the entire 70,000m2 site, fostering community connectivity, flexible public use, informal commercial development, and the establishment of public facilities. 45m2 Corner Unit
Formal layout of upper level units
36m2 Standard Unit
36m2 Corner Unit
Closed brick
Tripartite
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Ground level market kiosks
Ground floor market kiosks 38
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Upper level residential. Apartment with tripartite wall concept, allowing for passive ventilation, extending living space into the corridor. Single-loaded corridor becomes an extension of each unit and an active social space
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Project Team: Tristan Crawford Advisors: Maria Denegri, Pina Petricone M.Arch II, 2017 42
Toronto Urban Culture Centre
The Toronto Urban Culture Centre mediates the multiple urban adjacencies, program types, and user interests that coincide both on the site and in the very notion of a cultural institution dedicated to Toronto. To control the magnitude and complexity of user-experience imagined for the museum, programs are atomized and organized around an interior street, allowing for flexibility of occupation. Atomized programs are established in independent volumes and the articulation of volumetric autonomy becomes a crucial architectural and tectonic theme. Volumetric intersections are critical wayfinding junctures –intersections become viewing portals that provide a visual connection between volumes.
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RAIL DECK PARK
WELLINGTON
METROPOLITAN
NEIGHBOURHOOD
THE FREE MUSEUM
RAIL DECK PARK
WELLINGTON
NEIGHBOURHOOD
TICKETED GALLERIES PEDESTRIAN LANEWAY INTERIOR STREET
TICKETED GALLERIES
PEDESTRIAN LANEWAY
DRAPER STREET HERITAGE
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERIOR STREET
PUBLIC SQUARE
FREE MUSEUM
CIVIC AMENITIES
FREE MUSEUM
CIVIC AMENITIES
ENTERTAINMENT
METROPOLITAN
Programmatic volumes, lifted from the ground plane, frame two interstitial voids – the concourse and atrium – the resultant form of the “interior street”.
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Opposite: View of the “interior street”, which serves as the main artery of the building from which the visitor establishes a visual connection with the disparate areas of the museum.
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WELLINGTON PLAZA cafe and gallery terrace
storage
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
GALLERY 6
temporary exhibitions
CAFE
ATRIUM
events and large objects
GALLERY 5
permanent collections
GIFT SHOP
SECONDARY MECHANICAL
SECONDARY MECHANICAL
COAT ROOM
AMPHITHEATRE
AMPHITHEATRE
GIFT SHOP STORAGE
GALLERY 4 large objects
TICKETING
ADMINISTRATION
offices
CAFE
GROUP ASSEMBLY
AUDITORIUM
TERRACE
ticketed galleries access
KITCHEN
GALLERY 1 the free gallery
GALLERY 2
permanent collections
AUDITORIUM lobby + reception area
RESTAURANT
Ground and Second Floors: free and paid museum spaces.
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SERVICE CATWALK
offices
ADMINISTRATION
FREIGHT SERVICE
interior street
CONCOURSE
AMPHITHEATRE
ARCHIVE DESK ARCHIVE DESK
RESEARCH RESEARCHLIBRARY LIBRARY
GALLERY GALLERY3 3
special special exhibitions exhibitions
ARCHIVE DESK
RESEARCH LIBRARY
GALLERY 3 special exhibitions
Third Floor and Roof: increasingly controlled spaces.
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The atrium as seen on a summer’s day. The folding nana wall dissolves the threshold of the atrium, facilitating fluid circulation of the meandering public and museum visitors. 48
The atrium as seen on a winter’s night from Niagara St. During events it becomes a beacon for the surrounding neighbourhood and a true coldclimate public space. 49