Site Views
A walk around the site — canal, former cotton mill, tram line and the open ground where the geese have settled.
Source: Google Maps
Subjective Experience
Reading the site through personal and collective perception — collage as a way of seeing before measuring.
The whole site for me personally reflects a pure wild interest, an undeveloped natural habitat, with variety of plants, and a roosting animal dominated by geese.
This collage shows our team's emphasis on and exploration of the desired path created by human beings inadvertently. We find that the site extends different objective elements along the desired path, such as railway, grassland distribution, and animal habitat, showing the relationship between human beings and other things in the site.Group members: Hongyu Ren, Amrit Gurung, Yuxin Fang, Xiaoxi Tang, Ninghong Kao
The team collage illustrates our vision to transform new islington into an open entertainment space where citizens can enjoy picnics and gatherings in their spare time.Group members: Abhimanyu, Hongyu Ren, Wenyu Pan, Ramtin.
Objective Analysis
Measured readings of the site — light, wind and humidity, vegetation and habitat, human intervention and historical change.
Group work by Xiaoxi Tang
Group work by Yuxin Fang
Group work by Mona
Work Shop
Experiments in representation — collage, the visualization of sound, paper modelling and critical site analysis.
This illustration selects the canal around the site for re-imagination, first strengthens the texture and colour of the scene by superimposing materials on the printed image, and then scans it into the software to process the production.
This sketch expresses the different sounds of the site as lines, conveying the emotion of each sound — for example traffic, birds, flowing water, animals and the passing tram.
The perception of the invisible in the site made me realize that there are two main factors that reduce the quality of the site space: the poop produced by the geese and the mud puddles exposed to the ground.
Design Response
From mapping to construction detail — connecting people with nature, and with one another.
The site occupies a narrow strip in New Islington, Manchester, just 20 metres from the tram stop. The mapping records its boundary, contours, thresholds and the desired paths worn across the ground — reading how edge, water and movement already shape this overlooked piece of the city.
Ephemeral Installation
A temporary, low-intervention installation woven from reclaimed branches, cloth and stone — framing the site's industrial history and letting visitors look through the landscape.
Group work · Amrit Gurung, Hongyu Ren, Xiaoxi Tang, Yuxin Fang, Ninghong Kao
