Design Portfolio
Senior Thesis Restaurant Design Walt Disney World, FL 16,000 Square Feet Problem: To create a fun and inter active restaurant in Walt Disney World’s Epcot Cen ter that stimulates child education on heal thy eating that can be taken home with them. Concept: Creating a kinetic ‘Mad Science Food Lab’ that fuses together a biotic relationship between the space & visitors. The restaurant will act as a catalyst for enjoyment in healthier eating and respect for the environment.
People
Planet
Profit
Walt Disney World Receives over 17 million visitors annually. Mass population in the park leads to mass consumption and excess waste. The majority of food provided does not provide the correct nutrients for visitors to endure a long day in the park.
By providing healthier alternative meals to guests and educating them on how the restaurant operates as a living system, both guests and the environment will benefit.
The Walt Disney World corporation wants their visitors to be entertained and happy but they also want to run a successful business. By sparking energy in guests, revenue will increase.
Healthy Food = More Energy
Kinetic
Catalytic
Biotic
The proposed restaurant stimulates interaction between the environment and customers through the use of heat sensitive fabrics, LED color changing surfaces and experiemental table microscopes.
Nutritional, natural ingredients are secretely infused into popular American meals and revealed after the meal is complete, generating suprising and pleased reactions from children.
The restaurant provides visitors with a macro view into a plant cell. The restaurant comes alive literally and guests are encouraged to take a closer look at their meals with microscopes.
The restaurant offers seating on two levels with a centralized focus on an enlarged microscope that can be viewed from both levels in the space. The spacial planning reflects the operations of a plant cell. The circulation revolves around the microscope and breaks up the space acting as a nucleus.
First Floor- Plan View
Second Floor- Plan View
Guests receive a card after their meal and go to one of the stations before exiting. Just like magic the card reveals the healthy hidden ingredients in their meal. The beauty of the microscope is that is helps people view objects that aren’t apparent to the invisible eye.
Booth Relationship- Plan View
Booth- Plan View
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Design Process
Brainstorm & Concept Development
Programming & Relationship Diagrams
Initial Ideation Sketches
Design Development