2012 national competition project #191 | cafeteria redesign
|I am redesigning our school cafeteria to be more efficient while students are getting food. The whole flow of the lunch lines could be much better. Currently the line covers the entrance to the teachers' eating area which is very inconvenient. The lines also take a long time to go through, so the students who are at the end have barely enough time to eat their lunch.
Blue Girl's work for the Collect Information step:
Summary
To gain information on how our cafeteria already looks I took a tour and took pictures along the way. I also got the original floor plan.
This shows where the entrance to the teachers' cafeteria is and how close it is to where...
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This is the area where students get their lunches and when every one starts coming it gets very...
All students go to one area so only a small number of them can be served at a time. I think the...
Student Co. will often do lunch time activities in this area where they play music, but they always...
This area could easily be combined by placing the two drink despencers next to each other. Then...
These show the areas that I am going to redesign or edit. Inculding adding mirors in the bathrooms.
Blue Girl's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:
Summary
I brainstormed the problems of efficient trafic flow within the cafeteria which effected the amount of time required to feed two groups of five hundred students and what areas could be improved to makBlue Girl's work for the Develop Solutions step:
Summary
I took all of my ideas and started putting them together, taking from the original floor plan and changing various details.
My fourth floor plan. It began looking like a real cafeteria and I started playing with the setup...
My second floor plan. I began putting in interior walls. This alowed some of my new ideas to begin...
My seventh and final floor plan. I realised that I had drawn things wrong, so I fixed them. I also...