Tannaz Oroumchi's functional London and Oxford Street
If you've been to Clerkenwell Design Week over the last few days, you'd have seen Curious Duke Gallery in the Additions tent at stand 3. And in that stand you'd have followed the artful lines and curves that build up a tonal drawing of the map of London. But not a view of London that you have seen before, for Artist and architect Tannaz Oroumchi wants London to be a functional city. She wants us to be able to live, work and play without having to commute, to not be overcrowded, and to have community. And she has done exactly that with her drawings of London.
For example her Oxford Street series reveals the narrow lines of dissected land that runs between buildings- to walk here would to be pushed along with the heaving crowds. This is exactly what Oroumchi does not want, and something that we should not expect.
Oroumchi says of this drawing “flow and line to transform the mundane.” And look closely and the looped lines reveal the tiny spaces that is yours- the rest of the street is home to overbearing buildings.
Oxford Street, but with set back spaces, ares to stop in, to watch, to eat, to take a phone call, to wait, to breathe, to take a photo are built into Oroumchi's darkened patches of the Street.
And as anyone who has been to Oxford Street would know, none of the above are possible without a incurring an injury.
Oxford Street Point Stretch
And here, in the final instalment of Oroumchi's re-imagining of Oxford Street the buildings aren't just set back a little, but the parameters are jagged, the entrances numerous and line of people free to walk, to move around and break the constant line of shuffling along the pavement- pedestrians are free to move and decide how to use the space.
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