FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION

FOOD COURT for “The Atlantic Pearl” LOCATED AT MARINA DISTRICT,

EKO ATLANTIC CITY, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS STATE.

INTRODUCTIONA Food court is an area, such as a section of a mall or an alley in which vendors sell food at stations about a common eating area of space, which could be open to air or enclosed depending on its location and surrounding facilities.

Food courts are generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining.

Food courts may be found in shopping malls, airports, and parks. In various regions (such as Asia, the Americas, and Africa), it may be a standalone development. In some places of learning such as high schools and universities, food courts have also come to replace or complement traditional cafeterias.

Cineplex is a multiplex also known as a movie theater. A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens, typically more than one screen within a single complex. They are usually housed in a specially designed building. Sometimes, an existing venue undergoes a renovation where the existing auditoriums are split into smaller ones, or more auditoriums are added in an extension or expansion of the building.

Why have a food court ?Food courts provides the for the basic human need of feeding with available option of different types of cuisine to a large mass of people in a space, they are usually indoors, so it avoids the noise, heat and flies of a roadside food stall. It’s a cheap way to dine with variety of food all around. One would usually get a decent selection of local food to choose from. You get to eat with the locals themselves. Also, food courts are kind of interesting you get meet people and converse while having a good meal.

THE PROPOSED PROJECTThe Cineplex to be designed would be called “The Atlantic Pearl” located where the social activities in the vicinity exist, catering for the need of the residents to be entertained by motion pictures. The focus of this project however, will be the food court of the Cineplex, showing all integral details of the said area. The food court would serve as a communal spot where people could eat or and meet.

The food court to be designed would consist of signature restaurants like a sea food restaurant with its reference to the Atlantic ocean, continental foods and indigenous foods alike. It would also have a promenade acting as a viewing platform for the whole area and providing plenty of opportunities for pavement restaurants and al fresco dining.

THE PROPOSED SITE

The Marina District of Eko Atlantic is adjacent to the Harbour Lights district. It has views of the ocean from one side and of the entrance to the port of Lagos on the other. This area extends over 1,154,500 square metres and its water surface will be 76,677 square meters.Many of the buildings within this huge development will provide homes for residents but it will also be a centre for leisure and social activities and is expected to be popular with tourists and visitors. The planned building plots within the Marina District will be 5,500 square metre, which is 1.414 acres and equivalent to 8.5 plots of land (18m x 36m ). This site area is also designated for The Atlantic Pearl

PROPOSED SITE PROPOSED SITE

SITE JUSTIFICATIONRecreation and RelaxationThe Marina District itself will offer multiple berths for boats and other marine craft making this land very attractive to investors. Taking a boat out offers the chance to enjoy the quiet waters of the internal city waterway or to be more adventurous and set a course for the ocean.

Maximizing the SpaceThe eastern part of the Marina District will offer fabulous views of the harbour, waterway and the ocean. Moving west, the district will take on a more dramatic, urban appearance. Buildings of varied heights will be clustered and spaced to form some narrow streets and some wider, tree-lined boulevards, with shops, restaurants and bars. City squares will be a major feature in the Marina District, ideal for socializing and meeting friends.

Keeping the traffic flowing and the streets clear will be a priority here as in the rest of Eko Atlantic. Three levels of multistorey parking will be built with residential and commercial floors above. The first two storeys will be reserved only for restaurants, bars and retail outlets, giving easy access when strolling around.

Based on this The Atlantic Pearl would be designed to fit into the site layout to be a centre for motion picture and live entertainment, venue for shows , movie premières, entertainment and show biz events etc.

SITE LOCATION MAP

AFRICA

NIGERIA

LAGOS

EKO ATLANTIC CITY

Proposed site 5,500 sqm²

MARINA DISTRICT SITE ANALYSIS

Block industry 44,376sqm² Pearl

towers422,428sqm²

Eko pearl tower7,900sqm²

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AIM OF PROJECTThe aim of this project is to design a detailed and well-functioning food court for a Cineplex which would house 5 cinemas, 1drama theater and a children's games arcade all of 100 maximum seating capacity . The food court to be designed should exhibit its functionality in terms of traffic flow , waste disposal, relationship between spaces, ease of access and exit, delivery etc. it should include signature service (seafood restaurant) and well organized spacing in seating.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The following are the objectives of this project;• To design a well-functioning food court, locating vendor station and seating in a way that would ease movement• To design a food court that would be of advantage to product display by the vendors.• To design a people friendly interior space suitable for the purpose of dinning for all ages• To identify the presence of the Atlantic ocean in the vicinity, by making it a reference point or focal point of the design• To design a space that would complement the overall outlook of the Atlantic pearl

DESIGN BRIEFThe Atlantic Pearl would contain the following: Car parks Entrance lobby Ticketing lobby Ticket back office Food court Heritage theatre Cinema halls Games arcade Gifts Shops Management office Maintenance office Security office Projector rooms

The food court however would have the following: Eating hall Out door eating Service access 10 restaurants including a

seafood restaurant Janitors room Stores Conveniences

This is however a base for the design, more facilities might be added during the design process

DESIGN CONSIDERATION Food courts need pedestrian traffic; they often cannot create sufficient

action by themselves. Food courts should be placed where people will logically congregate or certainly pass.

Food courts are generative, but in an unusual way. They usually generate the majority of their traffic during normal dining periods, when the body's computer signals its time for chow. Since a considerable amount of food court sales come from "impulse" decision making.

Seating is a major issue, Moreover, Without adequate seating for peaks, food tenants have a lid on the amount of sales that they can achieve. Unlike other mall tenants, people's stomachs are programmed to three primary periods. In the food business, seating must be provided for peak periods, both now and in the future.

Food courts often should not be included in the first phase of a new mall, simply because there is inadequate food potential for all the space usually allocated. They simply do not have the staying power to survive two or three years of low sales, in relation to occupancy costs.

DESIGN CONSIDERATION More than one of a specific type of food tenant (beef, pizza, chicken, Oriental,

Mexican or others) can rarely survive in a food court, unless in a downtown location. When this occurs, the independent is almost always affected, and usually eliminated.

The shopping center industry has begun to recognize the contribution of food tenants and food courts to the overall mall presentation. In the true sense of the marketplace, shopping and eating go hand and hand. The food court shouldn't be penalized, but rather, perhaps, should be subsidized.

Food court maintenance should somehow be controlled by the food people. Cleanliness to a good food operator is truly next to godliness. What is your reaction when you enter a food operation and see paper on the floor or cluttered tables? Most people, you included, turn and leave. Food courts should be looked at as a single restaurant under the critical eyes of the customer. When its dirty or messy, it turns people off. When they're turned off, they stay away.

Visibility is extremely important to the food tenant, again because of impulse decision making. The concept of trees and shrubs in and around food courts may be aesthetically pleasing; however, the customers often cannot see the signs, or the tenants.

Food is different. Think of your own selection process and abide by it in placing a food court and selecting tenants.

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONSEATING

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONService accessWaste disposalRestaurant sizeRestaurant visibilityEase of access and entryTraffic and crowd controlOcean appealCar park and ferry park

CASE STUDIESINTERNATIONAL CASE STUDYName: Paragon cineplex bangkok

Location: 5th floor, Siam Paragon

Thanon Rama I. bangkok, thailand.

Description: The 600-seat Krungsri IMAX theatre (3-D or DMR effects) and 1,140-seat, balconied Siam Pavalai theatre headline at the country's most

luxurious cinema, hosting festivals and premières. The 34-seat Enigma private cinema has a food court and suits parties.

MERITS ◦ The Cineplex has a large and defined area meant

for sitting ◦ The food vendors are scarcely distributed◦ The food court also doubles a a circulation lobby for

the surrounding cinemas◦ The interior in the food court is very calm and suites

the relaxing environment due to de use of natural colors and white lighting

DEMERITS◦ The food court is at the entrance of the Cineplex

floor (5th floor)◦ No defined entrance to the Cineplex

CASE STUDIESINTERNATIONAL CASE STUDYName: Cineworld Middlebrough

Location: Leisure Park Marton Road,

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Description: Located in the town centre, Cineworld Middlesbrough boasts 11 screens with capacities ranging up to 400. All screens are air conditioned, with

stadium seating and are equipped with great digital projection facilities. Cinema has a mezzanine bar, and is served by a car park and great local transport links.

MERITS ◦ The Cineplex has provision for disabled access, parking

and conveniences◦ The food court also doubles as a ticketing lobby for the

surrounding cinemas◦ There are adequate car parks for the visitors of the

cineplex.DEMERITS

◦ The food court is very small to serve the amount of people who visit the cineplex

◦ The ticketing lobby and the food court are in the same place. This makes the area usually crowded , having so many people in such a small space at the same time.

◦ The head room height is very low.

CASE STUDIESLOCAL CASE STUDYName: The Palms Shopping Mall

Location: BIS Way, Lekki – Lagos state.

Description: The Palms Shopping Mall is located on a 44,000m2 site and is predominantly a single storey structure, with off-road parking for approximately 720 vehicles.

The anchor stores in the Palms Mall are South African brands Game, Shoprite and Nu Metro.

The Palms Shopping Mall has at least, 62 shops of varying size and design which include electronics shops, boutiques, cosmetics shops,

hairdressing salons, restaurants and gifts shops.

MERITS for food court ◦ The restaurants where divided according to the rent size◦ Then food court had a defined walkway around the

sitting area for easy access and exit◦ Structural columns were infused into the design by

acting as a medium of advertisement◦ No area designated for janitor cleaning as all cleaning

equipments were left in the openDEMERITS for food court

◦ Not all the shops at the food court served as edibile food items

◦ The children’s play area is too small◦ The seats available are not enough, hereby creating a

situation where people had to wait before finding a seat.

CASE STUDIESLOCAL CASE STUDYName: Ocean Basket

Location: 1392 Tiamiyu Savage Street .

Description: Ocean Basket Restaurant was opened in Lagos late in the year 2012 in a very upmarket area of Victoria Island. The restaurant is generally

managed and owned by The 'very successful' Ocean Basket Franchise Group that have seen over 160 restaurants established worldwide

Ocean Basket Lagos offers a great variety of sea food and side dishes like fish and chips and other fried sea food, with standard and quality in service delivery; It is strictly seafood, mostly served with rice or chips and Its a great place to sit back and have an enjoyable meal.

MERITS for food court ◦ The restaurant is a open kitchen style where the

guests could see the chef cook the food◦ There is an outdoor garden on the ground floor and a

cantilevered deck on the 1st floor to promote the outdoor experience of seafood dinning

◦ The interior of the space is appealing and very comfortable

◦ There a sense of order in the design as different food choice selection were separated from each other

DEMERITS for food court◦ Car parks where outside the fence of the building◦ The entrance of the restaurant isnt elaborated ◦ The female and male toilets access are the same