Dataset group presentation Agricultural Bodies. Year 1 Semester 1. BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture.

1. Agricultural Bodies
A Multi Sensory Experience of the Mancunian Way

2. Landscape
Architecture
Students
Sophie Thompson
Jonathan Hyde
Wilf Shaw
Karl Barrett et al

3. Introduction

5. Site History

6. The planning for the Mancunian Way was proposed and approved in 1961.

7. Officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilon on 5th May 1967.

8. Upgraded to Motorway status in the 1970’s.
MEN called it the ‘highway in the sky’ upon opening.

9. Background research on the Mancunian Way compared to
similar Highways

10. 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…

11. Context

12. Access, Light, Grey And Green Infrastructure & Community

13. Access

14. Families and students

15. Familes and Students
• A Divided Community
• Housing Association
• Student Village
• Subcultures – Grafitti Artists, taggers..

16. Current
subway
access

17. The Mancunian Way divides the student
community and the Hulme community

18. Light

21. Grey and Green Infrastructure

29. Community

30. Community

33. Assumptions made
through our visual
assessment of
graffiti
Skateboarders?

34. Assumptions made
through our visual
assessment of the
‘ramp-like’
structures
Half Pipe?

35. Clarifying our assumptions…
Ben Gibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager

36. Clarifying our assumptions…
Ben Gibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager

38. Recommendations
New route of
access
Integration of
the community

41. Agricultural Bodies
Credits
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”