Tokyo World Festival, Bristol, Festival Site Planning & Event Design

Tokyo World is one of Bristol's most loved festivals, and like many fast-growing events, the gap between creative ambition and operational planning needed closing. The brief built on the same approach used for Boomtown, accurate CAD-based site mapping from survey data, but with an added dimension: the planning model needed to double as a polished, guest-facing site guide.

The CAD site plan was built to the same standard of accuracy, with every stage, bar, welfare unit, toilet block, entrance, fair ride, and fire point positioned correctly to scale. That precision gave the production team a reliable working tool for safety planning, crowd flow management, and supplier logistics, while keeping stage orientations and emergency access routes compliant with licensing requirements.

What made this project distinct was the translation of that technical model into the stylised low-polygon 3D map used for public communications. The Volcano Stage, the Hedonism, Mutiny, Life, and World stages, the bars, fair rides, and key facilities all appear in a form that is immediately readable for festival-goers while remaining spatially accurate in plan view . The result is a site guide that works as a piece of festival branding as much as a navigation tool.