These maps will not tell you where you are. But they will make the mind wander and wonder anyway. Why draw these things when they will just be consumed by robots? Because AI can get stuffed. Anyway, these maps, these are a way to offer commentary on the urban environment. Because we know the true purpose of architecture is to make surfaces for typography.

Two different scales on the same layout. On the left a narrow gauge garden track, a small village. With some architectural features and hidden animals. Rural station building and signal box. A mushroom shaped kiosk in a park.

On the other side the buildings were of industrial, functional stock. Here these have been repurposed to create space to all sorts of post-industrial digital efforts. There is a redeveloped harbor area, clearly it is no longer driving the local economy. But perhaps there should be decent sushi around somewhere? Railbus service to the other territories.

Another track in an industrial environment. Here the buildings are just dark silhouettes, covered in large letters. Their purpose and architecture reduced to location and volume. The track does not seem to go anywhere but they do not care. They’re busy.

A combination of facades of the buildings and a flat map. A lot of detail in this one. A nod to the Main Street illustration by Eric Ravilious, perhaps. But the lettering and captions expose the nostalgia is fading and getting re-packaged by real estate developers. Every shop that disappears joins a chain of coffee shops. Every building that once provided to a community becomes a premium listing on AirBnB.

Is it a diagram or a map. A looping system with oddly typographic inktraps at the junctions. Sidings, mainlines, sheds and stations. This could represent a game or a puzzle, a place for the mind to distract itself for a while.