The document summarizes a proposal to redevelop an underutilized area in Castlefield, Greater Manchester. The proposal includes creating a business hub and pop-up shops to attract local residents and activate the space. Additional elements are an ice skating rink, outdoor cinema, and market space to encourage social interaction and economic activity within the community. Diagrams show the initial massing concept and how the design aims to improve circulation and connect the area to surrounding infrastructure.

1. PORTFOLIO
VIKTOR ANTOAN PETKOV

2. _‘New’ [re]Development
_Lack of residual spaces
_Slums accommodating
factory workers
_’Wealthy’ Castlefield
_Public services (eg. schools, hospitals, library etc.)
_Lower and Upper Campfield markets
_Train station FIRST | SECOND ‘class’ entrance
_Trams to town center
_Formal social
construct
_Factories
_Formal social
construct
_CBD
_Informal social construct.
Anti-social behaviour
_Residual space
_Neglection
_Infrastructure
_Warfs
_A mental ‘threshold’ between
rich and working class
_Central markets
_Central civic space
_High class people
SOCIO-SPATIAL DIVISION

3. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSYS OF
TERRITORY
The use of spaces within the area has turned
the territory into an economically passive zone,
which land is used for profit accumulation by sur-
rounding formations.
For example, the use of vast land for parking
space only creates, in reference to Auge’s theory,
‘non-places’, spaces without identity, residual
spaces.
Therefore, they are not attractive
to local residents, directing their
socio-economic needs elsehwere.
SURROUNDING
INFRASTRUCTURE
STATUS OF
INFRASTRUCTURE
SPATIAL PARAMETERS OF
SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROWTH OR DECLINE
RESOURCE CONCENTRATION
? ?
?
Infrastructure
Urban area
_Concentrating resources
_Creating infrastructure to serve it, socially
and economically not linking it to surrounding
context
_Transforming areas into transitional and
socually and economically passive residual
zone.
Unconncected
urban area

4. Forth principle of urban economics:
Every industry has its imprint on the city. Dominance of the local
economy by a single industry can have devastating effects once the
industry declines.

5. PROGRAMME SUMMARY
PHOTOMONTAGE
SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND
URBAN FRAGMENTATION
DIFFERENT POP-UP HUB WITHIN
THE CLOSE LOCALITY
POP-UP BUSINESS HUB
MARKETSPACEWITHINPOP-UPHUB
MASSPRODUCTIONANDDISTRIBUTION
A SMALL-BUSINESS INCUBATOR EXPRESSED THROUGH
THE MENTALITY OF THE POP-UP RETAIL SECTOR AND, BY AN
EXTENT, A SOCIO-URBAN PROGRAMME INTEGRATOR.
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only
because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
JANE JACOBS

6. Shadows on site 9am Shadows on site 12pm Shadows on site 12pm
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1. Business hub
2. Pop-up workshop
3. Pop-up store unit
4. Pop-up kitchen retail unit
Circulation broken into multiple
focal points giving unclear di-
rection and way-finding
Circulation broken into multiple
focal points giving unclear di-
rection and way-finding
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1 Inflatable cinema screen 16x8m
2 Seating approx. 45 people
1 Ice skating ring
2 Warming areas
1 Retail units aligned with 2 Sheltered space,
transformed into a retail pavilion
Market space strategy Ice skating Outdoor cinema
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PedestrianCyclists
Vehicles and parking space
1 Trees: wind breakers + forming a river walk
2 Green area 3 Marsh plants around canal
1 Food stand 2 Bike shed 3 Business hub
4 Sheltered sitting 5 Main piazza space
6 Lift for retail units 7 Water taxi stop
Permanent mass Vegetation Circulation
INITIAL MASSING ON SITE

7. LOCATION PLAN
CASTLEFIELD, GREATER MNCHESTER
SCALE: 1:2500 @420x840mm
UNITED KINGDOMGREATER MANCHESTER

8. SITE PLAN
SCALE: 1:200 @420x840mm
20 4 6 8 10
m N1:200
BUSINESS HUB
NEW ‘GUIDING’ MASS
SHELTERED SITTING
AREA/ MARKET
SPACE
GREEN AREAS
NEW CIRCULATION
INTERACTIVE BOARD
GAME

11. SITE SECTION 1-1
SCALE: 1:200 @420x840mm
20 4 6 8 10
m1:200

12. SITE SECTION 1-1
SCALE: 1:200 @420x840mm
20 4 6 8 10
m1:200

16. SECTION A-A
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0.5 1 2 3 4 50
m1:50
Existing structure Proposed mass
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A
B
B
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5 10 20 30 400
1:500 m
PLAN FIRST FLOOR
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PLAN SECOND FLOOR
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17. SECTIONAL ELEVATION B-B
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0.5 1 2 3 4 50
m1:100
Existing structure
Proposed mass A
A
B
B
A
A
B
B
A
A
B
B
5 10 20 30 400
1:500 m
PLAN FIRST FLOOR
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PLAN FIRST FLOOR
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PLAN SECOND FLOOR
SCALE: 1:500 @420x840mm

20. PHYSICAL MODEL
ENVELOPE DETAIL