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.