Modular Street Food - Saeed's Falafel Cart

Process - Overall Idea

Benjamin Guirakhoo

The objective of this studio was to make a falafel cart based on Saeed's recipe and offer a contemporary take on traditional designs. In doing so, we had to focus on how to make something that would offer a memorable experience to anyone who would interact with it. One of the first things we did was figure out what groups we could split up into by looking at Saeed's recipe and our process maps, this was especially beneficial to us as this was such a large project. Once groups were decided, they would each design their own facilities within the constraints of an upper hierarchy. This system worked well with the modular aspect of our cart, simple specifications meant that systems could be replaced with whatever was deemed fit. Once all teams finished a scale draft the entire group could put their models together and decide what was missing or off. The final quarter scale model represented our end goal, which was to create a fully functioning cart to deploy in Central Square.