How To Design Your Cafeteria
We all gather in the cafeteria to chat while enjoying tea, coffee, and snacks. its the place only offers that.
Why is understanding the purpose of the structure you are constructing important?
You might not have understood the significance of researching the function of a structure before you wanted to design it at the start of your architectural education.
Therefore, always keep in mind to understand and analyze the function AND circulation prior to designing!
Detailed instructions for designing a cafeteria
Here, we'll go over the specific procedures to take when designing a cafeteria :
First step:
Check out a cafeteria. Do you think it's strange? Since you've been to the cafeteria maybe a thousand times, you're likely to find it strange.
But this time, when you go to the cafeteria, look at it from the perspective of an architect.
You must carry out the following actions when you enter a cafeteria:
1. Examine and make note of the cafeteria's spaces
The following is a list of some of the significant cafeteria areas you might encounter:
- Seating area: a room with walls.
- Kitchen
- Semi-private space for seating
- A countertop (where you would have the display of various snacks you would like to have.)
- a warehouse (very important)
- an upright freezer (for ice-creams and cold drinks)
- A few artificial and natural plantations to give the inside a greener, more vibrant appearance.
- a stylish foyer for the entrance
2. Make a rough calculation of the spaces you just noted
3. Determine how many people can fit in the cafeteria at once, then divide that number by the approximations of the areas you determined for the various spaces
Seating area: 7 m x 10 m, or 70 sq m
A maximum of 50 people can be accommodated.
70/50 = 1.4 square meters per person.
Seating arrangement: 5 chairs per round table.
(Also, consider whether a different chair arrangement may have made a difference. Aim to be imaginative.)
4. Ask the cafeteria's owner if the space in the kitchen and store is adequate for running the cafeteria smoothly
You can determine the area per person for each space in the cafeteria if he believes the space is adequate for the cafeteria to operate efficiently.
Kitchen: 4 m x 4 m, or 16 sq m
Store: 4 m by 3 m = 12 sq m
Kitchen space per person (16/50) = 0.32 square meters
(Store) Area per Person = 0.24 sq. m.
Create a circulation map if you can. You can see how many spaces have been connected together from this.
How will determining "Area per person" aid in cafeteria design?
You may create the cafeteria to accommodate any number of people by calculating the area per person.
Area per person in a cafeteria's kitchen is 0.32 square meters.
The space will be equal to = 0.32 x 100 = 32 sq m for 100 people.
This indicates that a cafeteria will need to be 32 square meters in size in order to feed a throng of 100 people at once.
Other cafeteria settings require similar estimates to be made.
Phase Two:
It is necessary to do a similar study on another cafeteria.
Comparison research is usually beneficial. In addition to examining the functionality and traffic patterns of the spaces, you may investigate and assess the design components employed in the cafe.
Analyze the two case studies side by side and calculate the regions as we have previously discussed.
This is a fail-safe technique for designing correctly to fulfill the proper function.
Phase Three
Designs for cafeteria: Shapes and Forms
The cafeteria is a casual setting. Therefore, the cafeteria can be designed any you choose. You can play around with natural shapes, square boxes, and other geometric objects in both plan and elevation.
Ideally, strive to keep the plan straightforward and experiment with the building's outside. That is more logical. Maintaining the efficiency of the Cafeteria operation will be made easier by keeping the plan straightforward.
In addition, the following should be considered:
- color palette
- ventilation and ambient light
- synthetic illumination
- Green areas
- Utilizing various wall treatments to produce a striking visual effect
- utilizing various materials
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