Trees vs. Signs: Who Yields to Whom?

Conflict and solution between trees and signs in a shopping street. The upper half of the image shows the conflict: the canopies of street trees block shop signs, leading shop owners to prune branches themselves, resulting in disfigured tree shapes, or to raise and enlarge signs to cover the canopies, making both ugly. The lower half shows the solution: trees are moved to the boundary between storefronts, tree species with high branching points are chosen so that canopies are above signs, signs are changed to a vertically protruding form extending from below the canopies, and sightlines are maintained between tree trunks. Thus, both trees and signs are complete. The number of storefronts and trees is the same in both. Avoid: making the two similar, removing trees in the solution, making signs too small to be functional, trees being pruned into disfigured shapes.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段商店街中樹與招牌的衝突與解法。畫面上半是衝突的狀態:行道樹的樹冠正好擋住店家的招牌,店家因此自行修剪樹枝造成樹形殘缺,或把招牌加高加大蓋過樹冠,兩者都變醜。下半是解法:樹的位置移到店面的分界處、選用分枝點高的樹種讓樹冠在招牌之上、招牌改為垂直突出的形式從樹冠下方伸出、並在樹幹之間留出視線通道。因此樹與招牌各自完整。兩者的店面與樹的數量相同。避免:讓兩者相似、在解法中砍除樹木、把招牌做得過小失去功能、讓樹形被修剪成殘缺。