Umeda Story an architectural manga

Umeda Story was written as an entry in the Osaka International Concept Competition, an open competition held by the city of Osaka, Japan to get ideas for redeveloping a railroad freight yard near the city's downtown. While this entry was not a winning one it does share elements with some of the winning entries. You can see the winning designs at the competition site. The competition site is in Japanese and English.

Characters (mouseover for information, click for enlargement) Reference Material Perspective Drawing Route taken by characters plotted on perspective drawing Aerial Map Route taken by characters plotted on aerial map Presentation Poster 1 Presentation Poster 2 Posters and Booklet Main Suppplement Document Contains details of design plan. The pictures that were removed to reduce filesize are the comic pages. Perspective Drawing Supplement Document Building Data Supplement Document Aerial Map Key: Yellow: Initial development area Blue: Underground Roads Dark Gray: New buildings Light Gray: Reused buildings Links Osaka International Concept Competition website City of Osaka, Japan

The Comic 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 This comic follows standard Japanese manga layout conventions. Read from the top right corner, first horizontally than vertically. Basically a mirror of English layout conventions. return to architecture page return to First Cultural Industries front page (c) A. Twu 2002-2003 Site hosting provided by the Open Computing Facility