OUR SITE: CHORLTON
Chorlton is the largest district centre in Manchester with pedestrian and retail activity restricted to two intersecting busy main roads. There is a lack of public space off the main highways where people can stop, rest, play, meet each other, enjoy events - spending more time in an attractive and human-scale environment. The idea is that we would like the students to research the benefits of well designed public space - "a public square" - and envisage how this concept can be physically applied to Chorlton centre.

OUR COLLABORATOR:
CHORLTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST & CHORLTON VISION
"Chorlton is a diverse and interesting place to live, with lots going on and a proud, independent outlook. We want it to stay that way – in fact we want it to be better! "
Both Chorlton CLT and Chorlton Vision devote themselves to make chorlton a more people-friendly town, and by working with residents and business, they had already drafted an initial Vision, based on their priorities and ideas, which can facilitate our design.

SOCIAL IMPACT
The envisagement of "a public square" in chorlton can have many social impacts.
· Increasing people's wellbeing through having attractive, well designed, spaces, calming green areas included.
· Reducing loneliness by creating opportunities for people to meet and socialise.
· Encouraging more use of local shops and facilities thus benefiting the local economy including enhancing job opportunities.
· Reducing car use where people can see the benefit of walking through, or cycling to, attractive welcoming places, and reducing air pollution.
· Improving community safety as there would more people around with increased natural surveillance.
· Increasing a sense of pride of place in Chorlton thus increasing people's likelihood of volunteering and contributing to community resilience.
· Giving opportunities for a wider range of fresh and organic foodstuffs to be offered thus improving local health outcomes.

MEET THE TEAM!
Name : Xin Shu (Silvia)
Atelier : FLUX
Undergrad : Wuhan University & University of Dundee
Skills : Sketchup, Enscape , Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Sketching, AutoCAD
Hobbies : Hiking, Traveling, Dancing, Badminton
Archi Interest : Urban design & Urban regeneration

MEET THE TEAM!
Name : Aye Eindra Lin
Atelier : FLUX
Undergrad : Manchester school of architecture , (Hometown : Myanmar)
Skills : Revit , Enscape , Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Sketching, Sketchup
Experience : Worked in practice for a year under a company call Medical architecture Newcastle
Hobbies : Reading a book
Archi Interest : Sustainable architecture

MEET THE TEAM!
Name : Keating Walters
Atelier : Infrastructure
Undergrad : Manchester school of architecture, (Hometown : Nottingham)
Skills : Revit, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Lumion
Experience : Worked in Sheffield on my year out on education and industrial projects
Hobbies : Cooking/baking, plants and yoga
Archi Interest : Community engagement, Environmentalism

MEET THE TEAM!
Name : Tan Yow Hue
Atelier : SKN
Undergraduate : Taylor's Lakeside University , Malaysia
Skills : AutoCAD, Sketchup , Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
Experience : Specialized in authority submission, Interior renovation design, worked in practice for a year
Hobbies : Fishing
Arch Interest : Loves green design

MEET THE TEAM!
Name: Siddharth Tiwari
Atelier: MAKING
Undergraduate: Dr.D.Y.Patil school of Architecture, Pune, India.
Hometown: Pune, India.
Skills: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino+Grasshopper, SketchUp, Photoshop, Lumion, Illustrator.
Worked in practise for a year to develop working drawings & creating conceptual iterations for multiple projects.
Hobbies: Football, hiking, Cooking, gaming.
Archi interest: minimalistic, modern contemporary, biophilic design.

DAY 1
It's whole group's first meeting today. We began the day by briefing the students on the project and the site. We then asked students to draw some conceptual sketchesof possible interventions to Chorlton’s public realm using what they have learned from the morning’s presentation and also with what public space means to them. Plans and tasks of the next day's site visit were also discussed at last.

MIRO BOARD
We set up a Miro board for everyone to collate ideas and information of our site.

DAY 5
Based on the urban strategy of cycling formed last week, we continued working on 5 main strategies, designing interventions by sketches and massing.

Gathering ideas of public interventions for five main areas!

DAY 7
Today we continued working on the 3D modelling of our public interventions. For the public courtyard, placing pavilions for rest and integrating the cycleway as well.

DAY 7
Today we continued working on the 3D modelling of our public interventions. For the market space and pedestrian spaces beside Barlow Moor Road, placing pockets of green space, sheltered areas and seating, and integrating the cycleway as well.

DAY 8
After integrating all the models of well-designed public interventions and our site, we began to render today. We chose proper perspectives for rendering and asked BA students to polish these renderings and add people in. In the meantime, we got down to work on putting together all the materials needed for the final presentation.

MASTERPLAN

1. NICHOLAS ROAD
The aim of this intervention is to reduce congestion along the street, which will in turn create places for residents and visitors to rest or play. This will be ideal for the environment surrounding the health centre and school.

2. THE PICTURE HOUSE
Following future plans to create a food market within the old Picture House, our intervention aims to extend the spaces to the newly pedestrianised street to include places to eat, drink and host pop up events.

3. ‘CHORLTON SQUARE’
The aim of this intervention is to provide an extension of the cycle network as well as providing a new central hub for the bike delieveries. This will also create a public green space within walking distance from a range of amenities.

4. ACTIVE HIGH STREETS
This intervention aims to work with the existing plans of creating cycle lanes along Barlow Moor Road, and aims to accommodate cycling storage, planting as well as colourful shop windows.

5. THE GATEWAY
The idea behind the gateway interventions is to create an entrance to the public square that is welcoming and an active part of the high street.

DAY 9
It's the final presentation day with our collaborators, showcasing our final ideas, schemes and visualisation renders of the Chorlton area being revitalised. WRAP UP AFTER PRESENTATION.