Studio 3 - Succeeding the Network

Project Brief

Studio 3 rounds up the thesis project from the research and culminates into one standalone portfolio explaining the context, the design and the atmospheres created by the design. The thesis project investigates "How can we apply the nodes and corridors approach to counter habitat fragmentation in Bradford (Manchester) and the wider context?", followed by "How can urban infrastructure coexist with habitat creation in response to fragmentation?"

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Bradford gas holder in Manchester is our chosen site for this project, rescuing a historic structure slated for demolition through adaptive reuse in conjunction to our proposed reimagining of Manchester's travel infrastructure, creating a city wide monorail connecting biodiversity nodes, areas with high levels of biodiversity, with nature corridors where roads currently exist. Several biodiversity "Dead zones", areas with very low biodiversity, are to be connected along the rewilded nature corridors, encouraging more biodiversity to enter these areas through natural succession. The gas holder is one of these "dead zones", with our proposal creating a variety of new habitats connected along the monorail line transforming the space into a new biodiversity node, using the existing biodiversity of moss as the base species for the ecology to grow from.