Champs-élysées
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Project • By Cosimo Scotucci • Commercial Landscape
STRIPES.
Can the city itself become a living archive of our planetary change?
STRIPES is an urban-land-art installation that transforms the Boulevard des Champs-Élysées into a monumental climate narrative: a chromatic journey from past to present, from blue to red, from cold to hot.
Cosimo Scotucci
For centuries the Champs-Élysées has been a stage for history: triumphs, dreams and collective memory. Yet today it stands at the threshold of another defining story: the story of our changing climate. STRIPES is conceived as a visible timeline etched in light: each lamp post tuned to a specific temperature that corresponds to a moment in Earth’s climatic history following the Climate Stripes concept originated fro... More
Project • By PCA-STREAM • Masterplans
Réenchanter les Champs-Élysées
PCA-STREAM has intensified its research into urban metabolism with a new study undertaken at the request of the Comité Champs-Élysées, an organization that brings together the boulevard’s main public and private stakeholders.
A counterpoint to its historical narrative, the idea was to draw up a diagnosis of the Champs-Élysées and to provide prospects for 2030 which seek to connect its local context with the broader issues of our contemporary urban global condition.
The future prospects of the avenue are not only relevant to Parisians as they aim to remedy falling out of love with it, but also to the future of our urban condition. With the support of a team of technical experts, researchers, renowne... More