Design Process week 5 REPORT

This week, we supposed to do the report for our theme: canteen too small, And the canteen we are going to focus on the NAFA canteen(which i mentioned about at last time)...NAFA canteen is one of a typical small canteen around us, so I think it is easier for us to do some research about it.

For making the report multiple source , our group decided to do a interview about workers in NAFA canteen, we asked them some questions about their daily work time, advantages and disadvantages, improvements and so on

Actually, i have to said that it really surprised me a little bit because some answers is unexpectedly. For example, She told me that she have been here for about 7 years, i can not image that how can i work in such a small place for quite a long time...for me, if i worked in a small place(same as NAFA canteen), i would stay there at most 2 years...and she told me that preparing the food is easy for them because small canteen do not need too much food,. But what annoyed them is that sometimes the food is not enough(especially in rainy day, no one wants eat outside, only 2 choice---canteen or toastbox..), sometimes there are a lots of leftover food. Hard to estimate how much the food would be served everyday...

During last few week, after the empathy to the workers, we always think about workers may got lots of things to do, but this time, i noticed that they can go home around 5PM because they do not need to prepare the dinner, and we are not focusing the problem that due to the canteen too small, it's hard to estimate how many people will eat in canteen, and it sometimes is decided by the weather!

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i also take some pictures about our canteen's furniture...(to be the honest, some furniture really need redesign! it's waste a lots of space)

the table really takes a lot of space , and the heavy chair! if it change to the foldable furniture,  we might services more students at one time.

Design process week 4 Focus on Furniure

Our group has discussed lots of solutions of canteen too small(u can see it in our mind map) and in spite of add more space in NAFA, we'd like to change the furniture in the canteen, which means use the space maximum.

This is our mind map, and at last we need to design something that can present it easily, so we choose  the furniture...

tables and chairs in nada canteen

outside long bench, which also is a part of canteen

To be the honest, tables and chairs in NAFA canteen is really a "big size" it's hard to move and it take too much room inside,  so i assume that it would be one of the reason that the workers here hard to prepare the food in the morning. And it might also cause the canteen too crowded and noisy, this also makes the worker annoyed sometimes.

So in my personal perspective, why not we designed a foldable furniture to save more rooms? the video below is what inspired me (from Youtube)

all the furniture in the video have at least 2 functions,  this is a good point for us to start our project, to design the furniture in the canteen.