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Karley Wheeler New Food Stand

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

Overview Instructions

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Our high school needs a new food stand and I have been asked to design a new one. I am placing mine in the area behind the large air conditioning unit. There will be a large umbrella unit that will cover the entire stand at night so no one can break in and destruct it.

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?

Try This

  • 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.

K Wheeler's work for the Collect Information step:

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I collected information in different ways. I interviewed multiple people. First, I interviewed the nurse. She was extremely helpful in deciding some key foods to put in my stand.
This is one of the areas picnic benches could be placed for the students to sit down and eat. These...
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This is the Air Conditioning unit my stand wouldbe located by. This was a factor I had to consider...
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This a view of where my food stand would be located. There are many features of this particular...
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This is the sidewalk leading to the area where my stand would be located. This area is not...
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I had a vision of having something like this, but with an open top. Also, instead of haing a wall...
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I have an idea for a protection system that is like an umbrella with 2 hinges to enlose the entire...
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These are the notes I took while researching. I didn't want to intterupt my interviewee's...
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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?

K Wheeler's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:

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I thought through many options on where to place my stand. Many people were concerned aboput the sun. I didn't have that problem, becuase my cart will only be open before the sun rises.
This is an aerial photo of where my breakfast stand will be placed.It is behind the trailers and...
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This is a picture of where I will be storing all my items. My shelves will hollowed out, so all the...
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This is an overview of what my sketch page looks like. I have many sketches from different views.
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This is the menu I made based off of what people wanted for breafast and what was heathly. I also...
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I kept a running list of ideas at all times, so if an idea ever popped into my head, I immidently...
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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.

Try This

  • 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.

K Wheeler's work for the Develop Solutions step:

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For my final sketch, I took all the sketches I previously made and colaborated them into one big fancy sketch. This sketch has labels, notes, and color.
This is a picture of my full sketch with no annotations.
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This is the right side of my stand, with no annotations. You can see the microwave from the back,...
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This is a picture of the front section of my stand. This is where you order your food. I chose for...
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In this picture you can see the countertop area more clearly. Also, you can see what will be stored...
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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!

 

K Wheeler's work for the Final Design step:

Summary
My final design was an intricate sketch of my food stand.
This is a picture of my full and final sketch. This is what my stand would look like from the front...
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