Pedestrians spaces also feature integrated food truck parking.
The integration of food truck parking focuses on areas with high pedestrian foot traffic. The mix of merchants in the area does not play a role in the location of food truck parking. The parking spot is oriented provide natural ventilation.
Street activation featuring food displays from restaurants.
In areas of high pedestrian traffic, restaurants use food displays as a method of advertising. The food models displayed in cases are typically plastic.
With the number of spaces, as well as gradient of spaces, open to the elements, it is important do design architectural elements that are flexible with the seasons.
This scope of flexible architectural elements for seasonality spans from awnings, the sheet plastic curtains, to pergolas. The application depends on the context of the merchant space. For example, plastic curtains help minimize the impacts of environment conditions. A pergola provides shading for outdoor dining. Awnings extend over merchandise to also protect from environment conditions.
Some areas may provide first come, first serve merchant spaces.
These type of merchant spaces are located in public areas with pedestrian traffic. Although the spaces appear to be first-come, first serve there is an opportunity to create a system that facilitates scheduling or sign-up to use the spaces. This may become problematic in terms of number of merchants vying for the space. There also may be bias from those maintaining the system.
Bike storage is integrated into the facades of some buildings to accommodate those traveling via bicycle.
The application of facade bike storage integration focuses on the neighborhood scale. This includes buildings related to social infrastructure as well as frequently visited places – such as grocery stores.