Concept exercise :: "traversed space"

Place: Fresh Tortillas
6th avenue between 13th and 14th streets (right across the street from Chipotle).




After a few days of pondering on where to do this homework, I was still undecided until a few minutes ago. I was eating in Fresh Tortillas and I thought "Hey, why not? After all, I spend a lot of time eating here...". So let's start by analyzing the location, and the general flow of people:



If you follow the lines according to the order from the legend, you get a good idea of the area traveled by the general hungry customer. It's kinda cool that the behaviour of the people, when analyzed, resembles a triangle (with a repetition of one of its sides). I never would've thought about actually making some kind of generic shape out of the behaviour of starving people. Its basically like a circuit with electricity flowing through the board. When people come in, its similar to hitting a switch and letting flow of electricity move into the board.

If people actually realized this behaviour, they might be curious to try it to see if it's true, but after a while it might be a little bit confusing or tedious to execute. What if the behaviour was similar to another shape instead of a triangle? Would it make the eating process more fun? Tedious?

Square Shape



Shell Shape