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Hp's Foodstand

By dodee7 | M Design a food stand for a site around your school

Overview Instructions

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This food stand will be for all high school students to use. It will be a breakfast stand in the front of the school so all kids could get the most important meal before school. We will have taylor ham egg and cheese sandwhiches, eggs, french toast, toast, orange juice coffee, hot coco, and milk. There will be booths for the students to sit down relax and really feel like they are at a diner and not school. It will have a very good atmosphere.

Collect Instructions

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Gather more information about your existing school by taking photos, sketching, conducting interviews, or doing additional research.

Think About

  • Which location or entrance around your school campus receives the most student foot traffic? 
  • What types of healthy food options are currently available to students?
  • What types of food do you think the new stand needs to accommodate?

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  • Use Google Maps to view and print out an aerial photograph of your school.  Mark the different entrances to your school building on the aerial photograph.  Does your school have separate entrances for students and staff members?
  • Interview the school nurse, a health teacher, or the head cook and ask them their opinions about the types of healthy food currently available at school.  What improvements could be made with a new food stand?
  • Interview several classmates about where they think would be a good location for a new food stand.
  • Walk around the exterior of your school and take photos of possible locations for the new food stand.
  • Research other food vendor stands or carts.  Or search Flickr for "food cart", "street vendor", or "fruit kiosk" images.

dodee7's work for the Collect Information step:

Summary
In this step of the design process I evaluated possible locations around the building where the food stand might be placed, assessed possible food options, and looked at examples of existing food stan
The picture shown above, is an example of a food stand that could meet the design requirements.
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The above map of the school shows one possible location for the food stand. The location identified...
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This is a photo of my first idea of where to put the foodstand. I can't put the food stand by...
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In the picture above is another map of where my second idea of a food stand will be. It can be seen...
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In the picture above is another idea of possibly where the food stand can be. The food stand is in...
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This is where my third and final idea of a food stand to go. It's right before a main...
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The picture above is my final decision of where my food stand will be.
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Brainstorm Instructions

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Sketch by Jonathan Knodell | http://www.coroflot.com/jknodell/black-n-white-sketches

Develop sketches or models to help you puzzle through new ideas and solutions.

The food stand or cart will need the following types of features

  • signage
  • a place to display food
  • a place for money to be stored securely
  • a place for some types of food to be refrigerated
  • a place for some types of food to be kept warm
  • additional storage space
  • a method for getting electrical power to the cart or stand
  • a method for either moving the cart from one location to another at night, and / or a method for securing and storing its contents when the stand is closed

Try This

  • Identify a location for your new food stand or cart.  Mark this on the aerial photograph.  Will it be located at an entrance near your school's cafeteria, or will it be near a main entrance?  You decide.  
  • Consider the path of the sun around your school building.  You may want to consider how the vendor operating the food stand (and the food they are selling) might be protected from the sun on a hot day.   
  • Using a tape measure and some masking tape, mark out the maximize size for the stand (12 feet long x 4 feet wide) on the floor of your classroom.  Mark the maximum height of the stand (10 feet high) in masking tape along the wall of your classroom.  This full-scale outline will help you understand the size of the object you are trying to design.
  • Make lots of sketches to get your early ideas down on paper.  Learn from each different idea. 
  • Brainstorm a list of special features you’d like the food stand to have. 
  • Consider what materials the stand will be made from.  What materials will be durable against the weather?

dodee7's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:

Summary
The food stand is located where two very used hallways meet.
The picture above is showing my idea of how the buffet for the food stand will be like.
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This is another picture of what i would have at my food stand for the buffet.
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Develop Instructions

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Now's the time to take what you've learned from the steps above and develop your own solution for a new food stand or cart.

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  • If possible, use cardboard or cardstock to build a rough physical study model or prototype of your food stand. You can't really understand the stand's shape until you make a quick study model. Don't worry about making a fancy finished model at this time. Instead, use cardstock, scissors, and tape to quickly create the large 3D form. See how it looks. Break off different sections, add new pieces, and try new ideas. Take photos of your model.
  • Sketch or use software such as Google SketchUp, AutoCAD, or Revit to put your ideas on paper.

dodee7's work for the Develop Solutions step:

Summary
I looked up some sketches of food stands to get an idea of what i wanted to do. After i seen a couple photos i chose a sketch that i liked.
In the photo above is what i have made so far of my food stand for High Point High School.
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In the photo above is what i an idea of what i want my food stand to look like, with some miner...
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In the photo above you can see that my food stand meets the design requirements of the stand being...
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In the screenshot above is the progress I have had with making a model of my food stand. You can...
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Final Instructions

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Congratulations on developing a final design! Use this step to upload the best drawings, screen captures, photos, etc. of your design. You want to be sure to pick images that show interesting details and help your viewer understand the space. 

For example, make sure you have a few images that help us understand things like where your foodcart is located around the school and what it looks like from the customer's and the sales person's perspective.

Don't forget to get feedback from others in your class or on DiscoverDesign, and teachers and mentors. Feedback is an important step of the design process to help you create the best design for the challenge.

Keep designing!

 

dodee7's work for the Final Design step:

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My Final design
My final site
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The other object next to my food stand is where all the food will be placed so it gives off that...
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