French designer Camille Walala has reimagined London’s Oxford Street as a car-free landscape, filled with blocky street furniture finished in her signature colourful style.
The eccentric proposal also envisions the use of patterned plant pots and geometric water features to convert the capital’s busiest shopping street into a fully pedestrianised area.
Described by Walala as a “what-if portrait of the city of tomorrow”, the goal of the project is to demonstrate how colour and nature could be used to create more joyful and sustainable cities.
法國設計師卡米爾·瓦拉拉（Camille Walala）將倫敦的牛津街重新構想成無車通行的景觀，充滿了以她標誌性的多彩風格完成的塊狀街道家具。
這個古怪的提議還設想使用帶圖案的花盆和幾何水景功能，將首都最繁忙的購物街轉變為步行區。
瓦拉拉（Walala）將其描述為“明天城市的情景”，該項目的目的是展示如何利用色彩和自然來創造更多歡樂和可持續發展的城市。
Walala’s proposal was sparked by her experience of living in London during the first national lockdown in the UK caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Throughout this period, she enjoyed cycling through London streets that were free from traffic or had been remapped to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists. Though these changes were the result of social distancing, it led Walala to imagine a future where the capital’s roads were repurposed.
瓦拉拉的提議是由於她在冠狀病毒大流行導致的英國首次全國封鎖期間居住在倫敦的經歷而引發的。
在此期間，她喜歡騎自行車在倫敦的街道上騎自行車，那裡交通暢通，或者被重新映射為優先考慮行人和騎自行車的人。 儘管這些變化是社會疏遠的結果，但它卻使Walala想像了首都道路被重新規劃的未來。
“At the beginning of lockdown earlier this year, I was cycling around the city with my partner, Julia,” Walala explained in a letter accompanying the project.
“We were struck by the silence of the streets, the sense of peace that had descended on London in the absence of the traffic, and we started talking about how cities might be fundamentally different.”
“This project is my what-if portrait of the city of tomorrow, and my own projection of what the London I love might one day look like,” Walala continued.
“In times such as these, when the future is uncertain, strain on mental health is high, and many of us are facing tough challenges in our lives, I believe it’s crucial to hang on to what hope we can for the future, and to spread joy in the present.”
瓦拉拉在該項目隨附的一封信中解釋說：“在今年初鎖定之初，我和我的搭檔茱莉亞一起在城市中騎自行車。”
“我們被街道的寂靜，在沒有交通的情況下倫敦的和平感所震驚，我們開始談論城市可能在根本上有何不同。”
瓦拉拉繼續說：“這個項目是我對明天這座城市的描述，也是我對自己所愛的倫敦一天的樣子的投影。”
“在這樣的時代，當未來充滿不確定性時，心理健康壓力很大，而且我們許多人都面臨生活中的艱鉅挑戰，我相信至關重要的是要堅持對未來的希望，並 在當下傳播歡樂。”
The centrepiece of Walala’s proposal is a giant water fountain, composed of several interlocking geometric blocks.
This fountain is elevated on a stripy monochrome platform and enveloped by circular seating areas, alongside rectangular plant pots and small tubs containing trees.
瓦拉拉提案的核心是一個巨大的噴泉，由幾個互鎖的幾何塊組成。
這個噴泉在一個條紋的單色平台上升高，並被圓形的座位區，矩形的花盆和裝有樹木的小盆所包圍。
The idea of pedestrianising Oxford Street has been in the spotlight for several years, with London mayor Sadiq Kahn planning to impose traffic restrictions there in 2018 – though this scheme was later rejected.
Zaha Hadid Architects imagined banishing cars from the road in 2018 as part of its Walkable London proposal, for which it envisioned a network of pedestrian routes that would allow people to walk right across the capital.
With car use rising as people avoid public transport due to the pandemic, some London boroughs are introducing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to prevent drivers from taking shortcuts through residential streets. One of these boroughs is Hackney, which has introduced LTNs as part of a plan to become a net-zero emissions borough by 2040.
Elsewhere in London, Walala recently overhauled an entire block in east London with a large-scale mural, shortly after transforming two pedestrian crossings and a building facade in White City.
Visuals are by Walala with OmniVisual.
牛津街行人專用區的想法已經引起關注了好幾年，倫敦市長薩迪克·卡恩（Sadiq Kahn）計劃在2018年對該區實行交通限制-儘管後來該計劃被拒絕。
扎哈·哈迪德建築師（Zaha Hadid Architects）曾設想將2018年的道路上的汽車驅逐出境，這是其“倫敦步行計劃”（Walkable London）提案的一部分，為此，他設想了一個行人專用路線網絡，使人們可以在首都步行。
由於大流行導致人們避開公共交通工具，汽車使用量也在增加，一些倫敦市鎮正在引入低流量街區，以防止駕駛員在居民區的街道上走捷徑。這些區之一是哈克尼（Hackney），它已引入LTN，作為到2040年成為零排放區的計劃的一部分。
在倫敦的其他地方，瓦拉拉（Walala）最近在改造了白城的兩個行人過路處和建築物立面後不久，用大型壁畫對倫敦東部的整個街區進行了大修。
視覺效果由Walala與OmniVisual共同提供。
FROM:https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/23/camille-walala-car-free-oxford-street-proposal/
