[why2025-terrain] Foodcourt Layout

[Gina Muuss]

Dear K4t0, dear JustSem, dear Team:Foodcourt,

We have not yet received a reaction for the email below, and I wanted to 
double-check that you got it and ask about the status of things.
Do you have any comments about our proposal?

Best,
Gina

On 4/10/25 8:49 PM, Gina Muuss wrote:
>
> Dear K4T0, dear Team:Foodcourt,
>
> It was lovely to meet you on Saturday and I hope you are doing well!
>
> Following our discussion, Team:Terrain has had a lengthy discussion 
> about the proposed food court layout and your question about moving 
> the bar further to the south.
> We have some worries about the user interactions that your layout 
> invites and how it integrates with our concept.
> In particular, we are worried about two things:
>
> For our camp the visitors are walking through the field randomly 
> looking at whatever they come across, villages, workshops, art, etc. 
> and this is desirable behavior.
> After all, everyone brings cool stuff, and we want visitors to engage 
> with each other.
> We would like the food court to fit into this usage of the terrain, so 
> we want to make it natural and almost obvious to walk through the food 
> court randomly.
> Visitors naturally discover what foods exist and that the food court 
> is a nice place to be.
> With the current layout visitors coming to the court have to pass 
> between the food trucks approaching from behind which will always feel 
> 'like your doing it wrong'.
>
> Generally, when placing things on the terrain we try to spread things 
> out and make use of natural terrain features as much as possible.
> This way the place feels more coherent and less 'different pieces 
> stuck together with sticky tape'.
> To us, the current design feels like a block within the terrain that 
> does not connect with the surrounding parts.
> While we appreciate the fact that the supplier has an interest in 
> creating a cohesive environment for their food trucks, we think that 
> with the current location this layout would negatively impact the flow 
> of the place.
>
> We also have a technical issue with the design you showed us: It takes 
> up about half of the space where the info tent was supposed to be.
> We can move it slightly but not far enough to make the exact thing you 
> proposed work.
> This is a technical issue though and for our proposals info will also 
> be moved slightly.
>
> We have two proposals for what we think would be a layout that fits 
> better with the feel of the camp.
> Our goal with this is to make use of natural barriers in the terrain 
> and make the food court an obvious thing to walk through.
> Both of our proposals also use more space than was originally 
> designated for the food court to make it feel more open.
>
> The first proposal (orange) looks like this:
>
> This makes use of the back info and the hill as pre-existing barriers 
> for the back sides of the trucks while still keeping them as close 
> together as before.
> The funnel shape also makes it natural to walk into from all sides.
> The star tent can also move further north or a bit south, if that is 
> more convenient.
> If we go for this option then it might still make sense to move the 
> bar south a little, that would be up to you.
>
> Our second option (pink) pulls the trucks apart a bit more:
>
> This layout uses the hill at the rice fields as a barrier instead of 
> info.
> That way we still allow info to be open from any side and integrate 
> the bar more into the food court.
> The position of the star tent here is even more fluid and can move 
> sensibly on the grass it is currently on.
>
> A hybrid of orange and pink not putting anything next to the hill is 
> also definitely possible. We just haven't drawn that yet as we don't 
> know all the design considerations that you are working with.
>
> Please let us know what you think!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Team:Terrain
>
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