The Cineroleum was an an experiment for the wider re-use of the UK’s 4,000 empty petrol stations. It was an improvisation with use of recycling of cheap industrial, reclaimed or donated materials.
City | London |
Number of inhabitants | 8,9 M |
Location | northern district |
Title | Cineroleum |
Building | petrol station |
Address | Albion Buildings, Clerkenwell |
Date of origin | 1980s |
Monument | not mentioned |
Original function | transport |
Owner | private |
Usable space | building |
Kind of contract | lease |
Tenant | Assemble |
Date of launch | 2010 |
Temporary function | cinema |
Pattern | pioneer |
Architecture | typology of adaptation |
Construction | advanced metallised membrane from DuPont |
Urbanism | activation |
Future | prototype |