What if? Metropolis - Thumbnails 1-74 and Initial Influence Map

The Designer I'm working with for this project is Issey Miyake. A Japanese Fashion designer born in Hiroshima, surviving the Atomic Blast, influenced originally as a child by the Hiroshima peace bridge. Now makes revolutionary fashion involving the idea of climate change and increasing population. Clothing that lasts more than one season, are durable and purposeful.

(Figure 1)

I'm influenced by much of Issey Miyake's work in fashion, I've looked into what has influenced him as well and found out much about his life. I feel with this information I can successfully create a City which screams Issey Miyake and his ideals around Design. 

Here are my first 26 Thumbnails, I am trying to be loose and follow the nature of fabric and how it folds and moves. These are influenced primarily from Issey Miyake's Exhibitions titled 'One Piece of Cloth' and 'Pleats Please.' I've tried to keep them simple and purposeful in design, there is a tree next to most to help represent scale. 

The further down the page we do the buildings begin to get more purposeful and ecological and start to move away from the nature of fabric. It is also important for me to note now that my city needs to be made from natural material or from recycled material as Issey Miyake likes to do in his Fashion Design work.

Some Digital Thumbnails to help with digital drawing, my designs need to become more simple and focused on the climate, population and primary use, whilst maintain a certain style.

The last few on this page were redraws of ones I liked the most during my thumbnailing, 34, 71 and 73 are the same building from different angles and with different adaptation. I am particularly fond of 53 because it seems aerodynamic, and in line with my designer. 24 and 72 are the same building with adaptation, this design also appealed to me for being eco-friendly to climate change and population growth.  

Illustration

(Figure 1) - O’Flaherty, M. (2017). Issey Miyake. [online] Howtospendit.ft.com. Available at: https://howtospendit.ft.com/house-garden/46863-issey-miyake [Accessed 26 Oct. 2017].