Manchester Intervention

Oxford Road train station and its surrounding context generates a high level of noise. Sounds from the pubs and clubs of the area combine with noises produced by Oxford Road and the train station, impacting largely on the site for the intervention. Individuals who use the site may have acquired a hearing to this sound, not noticing the noise as much as someone who is visiting the space for the first time. 
Noise affects people differently and can manipulate an individuals movement from one place to another. The effect of noise changes from day to night, a sound can become much more intense the later it gets.

The design for the intervention involves Hollow steel tubes that cantilever from the wall of the railway bridge, intersecting with similar tubes rooted into the ground of the site. When a train passes, vibrations of the viaduct will travel through the cantilevered tubes causing them to vibrate together. This will create various sounds.

        For some people, passing under this noisy canopy may become an interesting and even eventful part of their journey. Others may find the noise uncomfortable, changing their movement to escape or avoid the intervention.