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”