I recently got some good feedback recommending that I try building something wholly original set within the world of Cyberpunk. Taking that, I went out to explore the area I just moved to and drew reference from the architecture around me. After finding an alleyway that I liked the aesthetics and composition of, I built up this environment around it. As my new locale is on the East Coast, I wanted to emulate an idea of a NUSA-controlled territory within the Cyberpunk universe. As a little easter egg, I added a reference to the crew of the Cyberpunk Red tabletop game I GM, "The Backdoor Crew." In addition, the repair shop pictured is named "Roy's" as a reference to Blade Runner's Roy Batty.
As speed and quality of detail were important foci, I used Megascans to quickly build out the environment and texture library, and created additional props, architecture, and modular kits for the rest of the environment.
Huge thanks goes out to Zach Gainer and Sourabh Hamigi for their advice and critique.
Process