The over all goal of this studio was to create a high tech and soulful Falafel Cart. My group mainly worked on the storage and the preparation area. 

Inspirations 

Our first step was to look at what exists and then use that research and our own knowledge to create our own NuVu style Falafel Cart. We also looked at different ways of interacting with the customer while selling the Falafel. Since my group's pecific focus was the prep and storage area. We looked at the kitchens of food trucks. Basically, the first week was spent in research and brain storming. In the second week, we started to put an actual quarter scale Falafel Cart model together.

Iterations

For the first iteration, everyone was required to create a card board version for the part of the Falafel Cart that they were working on. This helped us to get an idea of what the final product would look like.

In the second iteration we started to add details to our designs. This was where we started to face design challenges.

One of the challenges we came across was having to give up a large part of our design to chassis group. In the beginning we didn't want to give this space to chassis group because my group thought that it would make our prep part smaller, and harder for us designers to give the necessary ingredients equal space. By the end, when figured out the exact measurements, we learned that giving up that space would have made no difference.

Knowing the exact measurements in full scale, led to challenge two. Inside of the prep area was too deep. It would have been hard for a cook to reach all the way to grab something. In the second iteration we solved this problem and added some new things to the design.

Iteration Two

In the second iteration we cut the prep area horizontally in equal halves to make it less deep. We added a storage area for the dough. We also added doorways to the front to provide access to the ingredients without pulling the prep area out.