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Split Visions: A perceptual re-framing of urban thresholds

Part 2 Project 2025
Manuela Oyekan
Manchester School of Architecture | UK
At the edge where Manchester dissolves into Salford, overlooking the monumental Factory International, lies a seam in the city’s fabric - a threshold. Neither here nor there, it is a space too often passed through without pause, yet rich with latent meaning.

Split Visions reimagines these in-between spaces not as voids, but as terrains of memory, transformation, and belonging.

Born from the recognition that thresholds are overlooked in urban discourse, the project constructs a new language for their reading and design. Through choreographed site analysis, Laban notation, and embodied cartography, a taxonomy of threshold typologies emerged, each linked to cognitive states that surface in liminal space.

The resulting interventions, parasitic spatial devices, cling lightly to the existing city, composed of both material and immaterial gestures. They choreograph new routes of perception. They reveal layers beneath the ordinary.

This methodology, rooted in performance, film, and scenography, proposes a shift in how we build, and what we build for.

Split Visions becomes both framework and manifesto: a call to reframe the overlooked, and to compose architecture not as fixed form, but as a lived, unfolding story.


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