Irk Valley, revisited

Irk Valley, revisited

Durand, P.M.

Geerts, F. (mentor)
Milani, S. (mentor)
Fokkinga, J. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Public territory Territory in Transit

2010-11-04

The project is about the revival of the Irk Valley, in Manchester. The banks of the river Irk has been colonized by industries during the industrial revolution. Nowadays there are only left overs scattered all over the banks. The site is the west bank of the downstream of the Irk Valley, at the North of Manchester city centre. The intervention aims to reveal the latent character of this terrain vague. It consists in two main operations : first, the frame of the bank by linear elements, that relates to the horizon of this landscape, secondly, the reconfiguration of its activities that provides a sequence of temporary uses. The design consists in a datum that performs exchanges between the existing ground at the bottom, and the artificial one on the top. This project presents three architectural attempts : the deck, the ground, the enclosure. The intervention recreates a fertile terrain.

Post industrial cities

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Durand, P.M.