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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.
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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.