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Mobile Restaurants
Urban Truck Type: Mobile Restaurants
• Mobile food trucks are visible throughout los angeles catering the walk by clienetele.
• Following their own itinerary and routine, they trace a path through the city fulfilling a need for quick inexpensive food.
• Setting up in factory drives, parking lots, empty lots and city streets, the restaurants transform empty spaces of the city into meeting places.
Mobilo
• Tchibo Introduces the mobile coffee cart, the latest in the coffee shop concept range.
• The Mobilo is a totally mobile coffee and snacks cart designed to be used in numerous environments from exhibitions to offices, events and public foyers.
• The cart has been used in Germany with much success. It’s many useful features provides a complete compact coffee shop.
• The mobile coffee cart can be used to create a quality coffee and snacks offer in virtually any location.
Mobility suggests a need for:
• light weight: thin, delicate
• modules: geometry, repetition
• flexible materials (as opposed to brittle)• ability to be transformed; collapse, fold up, deflate, come
apart
• 'zany' forms: it is doing something 'different', so it should look different!
Good Design:
• Visually expresses functions
• Offers multiple interpretations
• Uses materials in ways that take advantage of the materials physical and visual properties
Function
• Victor Papanek wrote in "Design For The Real World" that function consists of":
• Method: the interaction of tools, processes, and materials
• Use: does it work?
• Need: included are the economic, psychological, spiritual, technological, and intellectual needs of people.
• Telesis: the deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
• Association: psychological conditioning...the meaning an object has for us.
• Aesthetics: the object moves us and pleases us...it is beautiful, exciting, and meaningful.