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The New Brooklyn Tech Cafeteria

By vg4032 | L Redesign your school Cafeteria | 2012 National High School Architecture Competition
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05/17/12
I put the two pieces of the floor plan together to see how the whole floor plan looks. I realized that my original idea didn't follow this floor plan. Also there's no where in my school that a new cafeteria can be built. I will just have to work with what I have.

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Comments

It is good that you recognized your initial idea did not fit in the space you had. Some really bad architecture is made when people try to force an idea into a space.

Now the challenge is to look at the space you have and see the potential it has and work with that. In the Collect Info section you describe a central space that is empty. How can a space in the middle of all the lunchrooms be used to solve a problem such as having to move food from the kitchen to serving lines?

By dlogalbo, Architect at 02:47 pm, 02 June 2012

Great that you realized the impracticality of the original idea. But look at this at just another challenge. How can you incorporate curves into the existing space? It would be nice to break up all this boxiness somehow....

By DallasCFA, Educator at 09:46 pm, 03 June 2012