Gold One: Big 5 Food Court

Shipping containers turned into a branded food court for mineworkers, from SketchUp model to painted, working kitchens.

Client: Gold One Modder East Operations, with SEDA and Masana
Year: 2022
Discipline: Branding, Spaces & Signage, 3D & Interiors

Gold One: Big 5 Food Court

At Gold One’s Modder East operation we designed and delivered the Big 5 Food Court: container kitchens set under the canteen roof, built for the entrepreneurs supplying meals to the mine through its enterprise development programme with SEDA and Masana.

We modelled the layout in 3D, mocked the mural onto photos of the bare containers, then painted and branded them on site: the Big 5 identity, menu boards, specials panels and serving hatches.

Phila kahle. Eat well.

Film

Spray-painting the containers, Apr 2022

How it came together

From the first model to the bare site

3D model of the container court
Courtyard layout, upper deck
Mural mocked up on the bare containers
The containers before paint

On site

Straight from our phones, on the day

Containers in place under the canteen roof

Serving hatches cut and fitted

Mural painted

Serving windows and specials panel

Big 5 and Modder East branding on the end wall

The court from the entrance

Ready for the lunch rush

Specials board detail

Amecc Malapane at the finished mural

Big 5 Food logo

Big 5 Canteen: Eat well, phila kahle

Modder East × Big 5 signage layout

Big 5 menu board

Container concept: the presentation

3D model of the court, from above

Mural mocked up on the containers, front

Mural mocked up, close-up

More work

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