PLANT ROOM

After conducting the urban study on Manchester City as a group, we found out that there has been a significant encase in population throughout the years, which is mainly produced due to the two Universities situated in the city. The density inside the city is becoming a major problem which this proposal tries to resolve. Another study shows that the majority of the jobs in Manchester are situated in the City centre, which translates in problems with fluidity through the city, transportation problems and of course pollution. These problems only appear to deepen in the years to come. At the present moment Manchester suffers more and more from homelessness problems. In 2015 a survey showed that there were approximately 3000 people sleeping on the streets. And because most churches open their gates for the needy in times of cold, a very large number of people chose Manchester streets as their home. The proposal aims to help those people and create a community that will both be prosper and rejuvenate and maybe purify the air of Manchester. The initial underground intervention is located Underneath the empty plot next to the Football Museum and Victoria train station. An old underground shaft resides underneath the train station, excavated in the 1974 as part of what should have been ‘picc-vic ’ tube line. The project was abandoned in 1977 for lack of founding and the excavations and maintenance of the shaft stopped. In 2018 the remains of the construction are used for ill-intended,shady behavior conceived as an escape place. The intervention aims to keep the spirit of the place, that of a break out point and

The initial intervention on the ground level is located next to Oxford Road Train station and at the edge of Manchester city center and the beginning of Oxford road corridor. The perceived boundary between the 2 entities is very strongly suggested by an functional viaduct which as well crosses the canal river side. The overlapping of layers exposed in that corner represents the perfect metaphor for the city and the left over space around the layers | the viaduct, the street level and the canal side| represent by it`s own a vertical moment. The over ground construction starts on a leftover alleyway next to the Piccadilly Train Station which is the biggest and the cost crowded in the city. Piccadilly road is on of the businesses in Manchester, it connects Piccadilly train station to Victoria train station and it is adjustment to the starting point of HS2. This area is currently dominated by restaurants and art shops, and withe the HS2 coming Phase 1 of the vertical moment created in this urban area aims to regenerate the leftover space through elevated quadraphonics farms which would provide food for the surrounding business. Lack of green areas