agricultural bodies: group presentation
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Dataset group presentation Agricultural Bodies. Year 1 Semester 1. BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture.TRANSCRIPT
Agricultural BodiesA Multi Sensory Experience of the Mancunian Way
Landscape
Architecture
Students
Sophie Thompson
Jonathan Hyde
Wilf Shaw
Karl Barrett et al
Introduction
Site History
The planning for the Mancunian Way was proposed and approved in 1961.
Officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilon on 5th May 1967.
Upgraded to Motorway status in the 1970’s.
MEN called it the ‘highway in the sky’ upon opening.
Background research on the Mancunian Way compared to similar Highways
Pre-stressed concrete box girder structure taken from document State of the Art of a similar Highway structure to Mancunian Way (1975)
In 1975 this was an ideology, ‘Highway in the Sky’, although now we understand through current analysis that there are current problems with the ‘None Space’, namely Access, dividing communities…
Context
Access, Light, Grey And Green Infrastructure & Community
Access
Families and students
Familes and Students
• A Divided Community
• Housing Association
• Student Village
• Subcultures – Grafitti Artists, taggers..
Current subway access
The Mancunian Way divides the student community and the Hulme community
Light
Grey and Green Infrastructure
Community
Community
Assumptions made through our visual
assessment of graffiti
Skateboarders?
Assumptions made through our visual assessment of the
‘ramp-like’
structures
Half Pipe?
Clarifying our assumptions…
Ben Gibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager
Clarifying our assumptions…
Ben Gibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager
Recommendations
New route of access
Integration of the community
Agricultural BodiesCredits
Sophie Thompson
Jonathan Hyde
Wilf Shaw
Karl Barrett
Special thanks to
Ben Gibbs
“We reinvent stuff.
We find a use for something that no-one thought of”