Laura Mochales
Collapsible table for Street Vendors in Jackson Heights
Class of: 2023
Major: Product Design BFA
Medium: Combination of multiple media: research, technical drawings, paper model and 3D rendering
Faculty: Aviva Maya Shulem
Prompt: After thorough research on a New York neighborhood, during the length of the semester, this project finalized our work by gathering all our research and bringing it together, to inform our response to the potentials and challenges of the neighborhood each of us dealt with. Our task was to design something that could benefit the neighborhood and its community based on the needs or problems we had gathered through our research.
In a way to provide opportunities for the community to interact and have more sidewalk life, my project creates a type of collapsible table for street vendors to use on the streets of Jackson Heights. Since the lack of space is a problem around the streets of the neighborhood, this table will fold into a compartment in the floor, using space efficiently when no one is using it. These tables will be scattered around the main area where the different communities interact: Roosevelt Avenue.
