Renovation of Public Space in Trafford Park Village Historic District

Renovation of Public Space in Trafford Park Village Historic District SIYI WU (Syivia) 19072406

Contents

01 Overview

02 Reasearch

03 Project Proposal

Location

Site Analysis

Problem & Solution

Research Question

Precedent Project

Concept & Principle

Research Methods

Summary

Connection Functional Partition Master Plan & Route Design Strategy &Detail & Vision

01 Overview

Location Research Question Research Methods

Location Master Plan

MANCHESTER Salford

Trafford Park Village

Manchester 'King Cotton' is a major city and metropolitan borough in Great Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Streford. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remains the largest in Europe.

Location Trafford Park Village has many heritage buildings (Trafford Hotel, St Antony's Centre, St Antony's Church, St Antony's Presbytery, Village Shops, Village School, Parish Church of St. Cuthbert's, Village Inn), but also many factories and vacant parking. There is no useful public space between these buildings and between them and the streets.

Research Methods

Trafford Park Village Historical District

Comparative research Literature survey Historical research Concept analysis Precendent study Site Observation

Heritage Building: 8 buildings Monument: 2 monuments

Reasearch Question How to use renovating the public space of the historical district to reactivate this area on the premise of protecting heritage buildings.

Factory: 36 buildings Parking Lot: 20 parking

Site range

02 Research

Site Analysis

History Surrounding Current Conditions Climate Water System Plants SWOT

Key Precedent Project

Urban Design and Research of Nantou Old Town + Architectural Design of UABB Venue Strategy

Precedent Project

1. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 2. Dora Park Skatepark 3. Duisburg Nord Landscape Park

Site Analysis:

History (Timeline)

In 2009, Trafford Hotel was closed.

A further 325 houses were demolished in the early 1980s, leaving only the largest 84 houses remaining.

In 1911, American Ford opened a factory.

The Roman Catholic St Antony's was built in 1904.

By the 1970s The Village was also considered by Stretford Council to be a slum area, and unsuitable for residential housing.

St Cuthbert's was subsequently replaced by a brick building, but closed in 1982.

After 1930, the village was almost completely selfcontained, with its own shops, public hall, post office, police station, school, social club, and sports facilities.

St Cuthberts (Church of England) was built in 1902.

Rising to over 700 when the development was completed in 1904.

By 1903 more than 500 houses had been built.

During the mid-1970s, 298 houses were demolished.

In 1899, Trafford Park Dwellings Ltd was formed, with the aim of providing housing for the anticipated influx of new workers.

Methodist chapel was built in 1901.

In 1907, it was estimated that the population of the Village was 3,060.

MANCHESTER

In 1898, a large plot of land was sold to Edmund Nuttall & Co. for the construction of 1,200 houses.

UNITED KINGDOM

Site Analysis:

History (Historical Green Space Maps) The streets have green belts, but the streets were narrow, with few gardens, low participation in the landscape, single plant species.

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Green spaces began to change after 1898.

There are few green spaces, and the streets are basically not green.

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Surrounding (Landmarks)

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Surrounding (Big Factories)

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Surrounding (Traffic - Metrolink Lines)

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Surrounding (Traffic - Bus Routes)

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Surrounding (Traffic - Vehicle Routes)

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Surrounding (Traffic - Cycling Routes)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Building)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Factory)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Factory)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Parking Lot)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Green Space)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Street)

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Current Conditions (Trafford Park Village - Key Summary)

Traffic: Bus lines are convenient and vehicle routes are accessible; however, the metrolink network is not yet complete and cycling routes are not smooth enough.

Building: Rich heritage building resources.

Factory: The villages are all small industries, light industries, and small shops, which provide convenience to the surrounding workers; outside the village, the whole development was close to the pollution of the neighbouring industries; Parking Lot: Too many parking lots and disorderly distribution.

Green Space: Few gardens, low participation in the landscape, single plant species.

Street: The streets were narrow, low participation in the landscape, single plant species.

Site Analysis:

Current Conditions (Site - Heritage)

St. Antony's Centre

Trafford Hotel Now closed and up for sale.

Memorial to Marshall Stevens

St. Antony's Presbytery

Marshall Stevens is credited with being a prime mover in the creation of the Trafford Park Industrial Estate.

St. Antony's Church It was built as a temporary structure in 1904 but it was reclad in green corrugated iron in 1994.

Village Shops

Village School

Parish Church of St. Cuthbert's

The Village School was built in 1914.

Since much of the village was demolished in the 70s and 80s the school closed and the building was a candidate for demolition.

The building was saved and renovated by Urban Splash creating a residential complex.

The garden between the presbytery and the church.

Village Inn

Monument The name of the monument refer to the Trafford Park Village of which there are only a few remnants today.

Site Analysis:

Current Conditions (Site - Parking Lot)

Trafford Park Village Historical District

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Current Conditions (Site - Open Space)

Trafford Park Village Historical District

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Current Conditions (Site - Street)

Trafford Park Village Historical District

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Site Analysis: Climate

Site Analysis: Water System

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Plants (Level of Greenery)

Level of Greenery High

Low

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Plants (Flowering Table)

Trafford Park Village has few plants, and its color is monotonous.

It is dominated by green foliage. It lacks flower plants and the arrangement of arbor and shrubs.

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Nov. Dec. Purple Yellow White Flower Interest

Green Foliage Interest

Oct. Nov. Dec. Red Flower Interest

Green Foliage Interest

Berberis gagnepainii

Fraxinus americana

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Although Pomona's green coveragerate is high, the plant types are monotonous.

Hedera helix

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Cynodon dactylon

Cotoneaster horizontalis

Fagus sylvatica

Betula utilis

Fraxinus americana

Pinus nigra

Ilex aquifolium

Hedera helix

Euonymus fortunei

Viburnum davidii

Cynodon dactylon

Poa annua

Prunus dulcis

Ocimum americanum

Berberis aquifolium

Lavandula angustifolia

Trafford Park Village

Poa annua

Pomona

Red Yellow

Flower Interest White Green Purple Foliage Interest

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Dec. Green

Kigelia africana

Salix alba

Betula pubescens

Pinus nigra

Morus indica

Plants (Flowering Table)

Buxus sempervirens

Hedera helix

Juniperus horizontalis

Thymus citriodorus

Santolina africana

Phormium tenax

Cynodon dactylon

Poa annua

Ophiopogon planiscapus

Berberis thunbergii

Helleborus lividus

Viburnum tinus

Cortaderia selloana

Camellia petelotii

Iris sibirica

Anigozanthos flavidus

Mespilus germanica

Pyracantha coccinea

Scutellaria costaricana

Site Analysis: MediaCity UK

Compared with other places, the plant species in this area are richer and the color is more colorful, but it is still dominated by green foliage.

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Conclusion: Trafford Park Village lacks plant diversity.

Site Analysis: SWOT

1. Heritage buildings; 2. Has a special industrial history culture (Old Ford factory Culture); 3. Have a special holiday celebration; 4. Provide convenience to small industries, light industries and small shops and serve surrounding workers.

1. Too many vacant parkings; 2. The streets were narrow, with few gardens, low participation in the landscape, single plant species; 3. The whole development was close to the pollution of the neighbouring industries; 4. Many of which were condemned as slums in later years.

5. Inadequate transportation; 6. Potentially flooded area.

1. Increasing demand for community cultural image construction; 2. There are few such concentrated historical districts in the same area.

1. How to widen the diversity of people; 2. How to transform the surrounding public space on the premise of protecting historical buildings; 3. How to handle the relationship between factories and heritage buildings; 4. How to connect with surrounding communities.

Key Precedent Project:

Urban Design and Research of Nantou Old Town + Architectural Design of UABB Venue

Introduction Shenzhen has long been portrayed through an urban myth as a “small fishing village” that grew into a prosperous metropolis in less than 40 years; however, Shenzhen was in reality never just a “small fishing village”. Indeed, located in the central area of the city, Nantou Old Town was founded during the Jin Dynasty and served as the political, military, and economic centre of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong region until the founding of the People’s Republic of China; a history that has spanned more than 1700 years. In the past century, the ancient town has gradually vanished, while the village has continuously expanded. The exacerbation of urbanization in Shenzhen has resulted in a complex pattern of a historical town embedded within an urban village, which is again encircled by the modern city.

Site Area: 282,637 m2 Floor Area: 34,070 m2 Landscape Area: 65,788 m2 Façade Renovation Area: 25,700 m2

Key Precedent Project:

Urban Design and Research of Nantou Old Town + Architectural Design of UABB Venue

Strategy 1 :

Strategy 2 :

Strategy 3 :

Further field surveys and research into Nantou’s historical documents helped them to find a narrative line on which spatial renovation and the exhibition implementation could highly coincide.

They sought to reconstruct a public open space system, something very rare in Nantou.

Baode Square: Reconstruction of the center of the old town

Creative Lab and Market Plaza

Strategy 4 : From Dajiale Public Stage to Open Theater Before

After

Strategies:

1. Public Space: Increase public activity space to form a concentrated place (eg. pocket park);

3. Building (Factory): Factory Facade Innovation (eg. Creative Lab);

2. Link: Connect the scattered historical buildings with similar design elements to form a guiding route (eg. color);

5. Landscape: Street remodeling: adding landscapes (eg. rain gardens), even rest areas.

4. Building (Heritage): Express the disappeared monumental building (eg. Ford Factory) in the form of public art installations;

Precedent Project:

1. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 1 : A Memorial Without Names The Berlin Holocaust Memorial without plaques, inscriptions, or religious symbols, yet the strength of the design is in its mass of anonymity. It symbolically captured the horror of the Nazi death camps.

Introduction

2 : Undulating Stones

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. The monument is situated on the former location of the Berlin Wall, where the "death strip" once divided the city. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The slabs have similar lengths and widths, but various heights. An attached underground "Place of Information" holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.

Each stele or stone slab is sized and arranged in such a way that the field of stelae seems to undulate with the sloping land.

Precedent Project:

1. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 3 : Pathways through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial

5 : Anti-Vandalism at the Holocaust Memorial

Visitors to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe can follow a labyrinth of pathways between the massive stone slabs. Visitors will feel the loss and disorientation that Jews felt during the Holocaust.

4 : Each Stone a Unique Tribute Unique stone meaning the uniqueness and the sameness of the people who were murdered at the time of the Holocaust, also known as Shoah.

6 : Beneath the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Visitor's information center beneath the Memorial's stones was designed to preserve inscriptions, artifacts, and historical information. A series of rooms covering thousands of square feet memorializes individual victims with names and biographies.

Precedent Project:

2. Dora Park Skatepark

Introduction This park is an industrial site reconstruction project in Turin, Italy. This park with sustainable development concept has 5 independent sections. The connection between the five areas of the park and the surrounding communities are an important part of the new park's sustainable concept. Among them, three of which are named after the industrial companies that used to occupy the site: Ingest, Vitali and Michelin, in addition to Valdocco North and Corso Mortara, situated above the new tunnel.

The site is dominated by the River Dora, main traffic arteries and new residential areas, but its true and unique character is derived from the remnants of its industrial past.

Site Area: 37 hectares Design Company: Latz + Partner

Strategy 1 : The main space of the park is an open plaza, where rows of metal cooling towers stand, and these metal pillars are retained as a symbol of the park.

Strategy 3 : In the park, the intersecting traffic elements: promenades, ramps, steps, and bridges connect the five parts of the park more closely. Among them, the 700-meter-long and 6-meter-high elevated walkway passes through the main area of ​​the park, providing people new horizons.

Strategy 2 : Water can be seen everywhere in the park. The water in the west changes with the season under the cover of lush vegetation; the water in the east is buried under the concrete to become an underdrain. The entire site is integrated into a sustainable water management system, collecting and storing rainwater.

Strategy 4 : Plants in such parks serve as shelters for the buffer zone between the buildings and the rest of the square. These thriving plants continue to multiply, giving the industrial relics a new look.

Precedent Project:

3. Duisburg Nord Landscape Park Introduction Duisburg Nord Landscape Park is one of the projects in the Ruhr International Architecture Exhibition (IBA): The existing patterns and fragments formed by industrial use were taken, developed and re – interpreted with a new syntax, existing fragments were interlaced into a new "landscape".

Waterpark : The open waste water canal of the ”Old Emscher”, crossing the park from east to west, was transformed into a clear water canal with bridges and footpaths, exclusively fed by the clear rainwater. The water channel and the whole water system are an artefact, which aims to restore natural processes in an environment of devastation and distortion.

Railway Park : The railway lines, still open or out of operation, are the most continuous connections also in the park. They form a filigree pattern, going deep into the living and working areas of the city quarters.

Site Area: 230 hectares Design Company: Latz + Partner Blast Furnace Park : The Piazza Metallica is the symbol of this park, a metamorphosis of the existing hard and rugged industrial structure into a public park. The flowering trees interweave with the bizarre framework of the blast furnaces and the windheaters to a fantastic image.

Sinter Park : The place of the former sintering plant was heavily contaminated and had to be almost completely demolished. Today it is a flourishing meadow and a shady grove, a huge festival place. They are places of retreat and contemplation that are so important in a large public park.

Play-points : The whole park is a big adventure playground.

Old industrial structures are transformed by adaptation and new interpretation.

03 Project Proposal Proposal

Problem & Solution Concept & Principle Connection Functional Partition Master Plan & Route Design Strategy &Detail & Vision

Problem: 1. How to attract people around?

2. How to make Village stand out prominently?

Solution: 1. Connect with surroundings 2. (1) Use different colors to make the Village stand out (Green Space) (2) Use different shapes to make the Village stand out (Anomaly)

Brainstorming

Design Concept:

1. Combine industrial heritage with ecological green space

2. Highlight Trafford Park Village in the surrounding environment through color or round elements

Design Principles:

1. Functional principle

Increase public square

Add rest areas around streets and shops

Increase the display space

2. Artistic principle

Add cultural characteristics of Ford Motor Company and Westinghouse Factory

Increase Increase the venue color of plant paving color configuration

3. Ecological principle

Increase noise and pollution resistant plants

Rainwater Garden System

Plant Design Concept

Spring Summer

Color changes with the seasons

Collect Rainwater

Foliage Interest Flower Interest

Abundant layers

Flower interest and foliage interest combination

Reduce Pollution

Ecology

Connection

Ecology Park

Caroline's Site

MediaCity UK& Salford Quays

Pomona

Trafford Centre

Site Old Trafford

Blaze a new trail Cycling Bridge Viaduct Metrolink Extension

Cycling Bridge + Viaduct

Functional Partition

Open Space

Main Entrance

Entrance

Tourist

Tourist, Resident, Worker

Cultural & Commercial areas Industrial area

Resident, Worker

Ford Factory Memorial Area

Semiprivate Space Main Entrance

Master Plan & Route Design

Main Entrance

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1 Museum

Entrance

2 Heritage Buildung 3 Creative Market 4 Factory Brand

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Display Area 5 Ford Factory Memorial Park

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6 Bring Nature Back

Area

7 Industrial Experience

Studio 8 Open Gathering Square 9 Sports Area

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Section 4

10 Westinghouse

Original Address 11 Highline Park

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12 Industrial Area 13 Industrial Area

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Section 5

Best tourist viewing route Workers' daily walking route Heritage Building

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Main Entrance

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Strategy Third Avenue area: 1. Use irregular jagged edge lines and bright paving colors to highlight the Third Avenue, and guide people to visit the Third Avenue where the historical sites are concentrated.

2. Rebuild the old building form so that you can feel the old Trafford Park when walking on Third Avenue.

3. Extend the colorful paving tiles to the surrounding old sites of Ford Factory and Westinghouse Factory, and guide the flow of people to visit the old site.

4. Add a rest area in the middle of Third Avenue or beside the shops, and add public artworks with Trafford Park Village characteristics; 5. Add a display area for brand promotion products of surrounding factories on the former site of Ford Factory which was transformed into a park; 6. Create a Creative Market to activate the business in the place.

Old photos of the place in the past

TRAFFORD PARK ARCH Railroad Tracks

Industrial Arch Trams

Third Avenue Design Details - Section 1 Industrial Arch

Decorative Trams and Tracks Fountain

Rest Area

Rain Garden

Sculpture (Sign of Trafford Park Village)

Reconstructed Shop Building

Third Avenue Design Details - Section 2 Rest Area

Small Gathering Square

Sculpture (Sign of Trafford Park Village)

Third Avenue Design Details - 3 Creative Market

Third Avenue Design Details - 4 Factory Brand Display Area

Strategy Ford Factory Memorial Park & Bring Nature Back: 1. Add industrial elements, such as chimneys, conveyor belts, water towers, etc. from brainstorming; 2. Join the conveyor belt of the old car factory to the conveyor belt of the new car factory around the trails of the park, and then directly enter the natural area; 3. In the middle of the old site leading to the Ford Factory, a metal arch is added to the existing road to attract the attention of passing traffic and people.

Ford Factory Memorial Park Design Details - Section 3 Industrial Experience Studio (Water tower)

Modern car production conveyor belt Previous car production conveyor belt

Sculpture with industrial characteristics

Container Tire seat, public art decoration

Creative Market

Smokestack (Decorative)

Ford Factory Memorial Plaza

Bring nature back

River

Ford Factory Memorial Park Design Details - Section 4 Open Gathering Square

Smokestack (Decorative)

Car Production Conveyor Belt

Metal Arch

Bring Nature Back Design Details - Section 5 Industrial Experience Studio

Highline Park

Landscape Pool

Flower Viewing Area

Ixora coccinea

Spiraea cantoniensis

Flower Viewing Area

Isolation Belt

Isolation Belt Bellis Perennis

Ixora coccinea ‘Gillettes Yellow’

Phragmites communis

Scirpus validus Vahl

Cyperus alternifolius L. subsp. flabelliformis

Landscape Pool

Botanical Garden Learning Base

Sabina Chinensis

Cinnamomum Camphora

Ligustrum Lucidum

Bauhinia

Acacia Confusa

Bring Nature Back Design Details - Landscape Pool Industrial Experience Studio

Landscape Pool

Viaduct

Strategy Ecological Design: 1. The rainwater garden system is used in the green belt to solve the hidden flood problem in the area; 2. Use green isolation belts around the industrial area to purify the air and reduce noise;

Rain Garden

3. Use ecological parking lot.

Isolation Belts Bellis Perennis

Sabina Chinensis

Cinnamomum Camphora

Ligustrum Lucidum

Bauhinia

Acacia Confusa

Ecological Parking Lot

Purplish Blue Red

Flower Interest Yellow White

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Dec. Green

Foliage Interest

Pinus massoniana

Terminalia neotaliala

Schefflera arboricola

Duranta repens ‘Variegata’

Crinum asiaticum

Codiaeum variegatum

Aglaonema modestum

Stipa tenuissima

Hibiscus syriacus L. form. totoalbus T.Moore

Osmanthus fragrans

Spiraea cantoniensis

Fagraea ceilanica

Handroanthus chrysanthus

Allemanda neriifolia

Ixora coccinea ‘Gillettes Yellow’

Wedelia chinensis

Cercis chinensis

Hibiscus syriacus L. form. paeoniflorus Gagn.

Hibiscus syriacus L. form. grandiflorus Rehder

Begonia semperflorens

Lantana camara

Ixora coccinea

Jacaranda mimosifolia

Hibiscus syriacus L. var. longibracteatus

Callicarpa bodinieri

Lantana montevidensis

Eryngium planum

Spanish lavender

Ornamental flowering time table

Functional flowering time table

Wetland Interior

Flower Viewing Area

Botanical Garden Learning Base

Isolation Belt

Acorus calamus Cyperus alternifolius Phragmites karka Phragmites australis Acrostichum aureum Panicum repens Thalia dealbata Pontederia cordata Plantago depressa Vallisneria natans Ceratophyllum demersum Alocasia macrorrhiza Syngonium podophyllum Oxalis corniculata Cayratia japonica Derris hancei Scirpus validus Cyperus haspan Nymphaea tetragona Nymphaea alba Nuphar pumilum Bougainvillea glabra Ixora duffii Impatiens furcillata Osmanthus Begonia semperflorens Allemanda neriifolia Catharanthus roseus Ipomoea pes-caprae Cordyline fruticosa Hibiscus tiliaceus Lagerstroemia indica Koelreuteria bipinnata Ficus microcarpa Acacia confusa Ficus rumphii Clerodendrum inerme Kandelia candel Macaranga tanarius Casuarina equisetifolia Ravenala madagascariensis Pittosporum tobira Bauhinia Ligustrum lucidum Buxus megistophylla Sabina chinensis Cinnamomum camphora Delonix regia

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