MOODFOOD
226 Grey St, South Brisbane QLD 4101
Design Concept
A tech-forward campus café where food and quiet technology help people feel more grounded, focused, and cared for.
MOODFOOD FLY THROUGH VIDEO
At Griffith University South Bank, Moodfood turns the existing campus café into a wellness hub for students and the wider community. Students often arrive stressed, distracted, or running on empty. Moodfood treats food as nourishment rather than fuel. Guests answer a few questions about how they feel, and a simple mood-based system suggests meals to uplift, ground, or energise, linking how they feel with what they eat. Nutrition, biophilic design, and a light technology layer support focus and everyday wellbeing. The room itself encourages soft fascination, using nature as a rest and refresh technique so attention can recover.
Within the renders you will find the following 3 key aspects:
Students (study focused environment)
Nature Focused (14 Patterns of Biophilic Design)
Integration of AI and Technology
BACKGROUND
FLOOR PLAN
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A tech-forward wellness café that reimagines the existing campus space as a place where food, technology, and thoughtful design work together to support focus, emotional balance, and everyday wellbeing. The intent is to create a calm yet energising environment in which technology feels supportive rather than overwhelming - a space that helps students and the wider community feel more grounded, focused, and cared for through the simple act of choosing what to eat.
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STUDENT | TECHNOLOGY & AI INTEGRATION | POSITIVE MENTAL WELL BEING
Use Existing Space on Griffith South Bank Campus
Limited visibility from the street
Limited Paid Street Parking
Rented for a 5-year period
24 x internal seats
40 x external seats.
Internal Space = 145sqm
External Space = 154sqm
Kitchen area = min of 35sqm + + 4sqn storeroom for dried goods.
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Mood-based AI ordering (via app or table tablet)
Power-packed study booths with adjustable lighting and charging
Flexible seating that supports both quick meals and long study sessions
Hanging greenery and arched overhead structure
Modern industrial palette of timber, brick, and soft accent colours
Artificial nature screens and live mood response lighting
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Revit
Twinmotion
DAY RENDERS
Moodfood borrows McDonald’s tech-enabled hospitality model, not its dining room. Ordering is personalised from a short mood check-in, with time of day and weather as secondary inputs, so suggestions can uplift, ground, or energise. Self-order using your mobile reduces time waiting in queue and reduces errors. Inventory and waste tracking sit in the back of house.
Additionally, enhancements such as voice ordering, medical history considerations, express menu choices based on previous mood history, live nature mood screens adjusting to majorities atmosphere needs and screen floors to help guide guests to tables. All tables include ‘pop ups’ – charging ports, phone/tablet holder, table easel. Booths specifically - power points, adjustable lighting, heated/massaging seats.
TECHNOLOGY INSPIRATION
Unlike a planting scheme labelled biophilic, Moodfood is organised through the 14 patterns of biophilic design. Visual connection with nature runs through the guest areas. The threshold provides thermal and airflow variability, and the interior includes include screens displaying the presence of water. These patterns structure the overall design. The remaining patterns are legible in the design rather than added as decoration.
NATURE TALK
NIGHT RENDERS
Students can use Moodfood after hours as a calm place to stay and reset during late study, with controlled entry and all booths (6 seaters) have adjustable lighting.
NIGHT STUDY
ELEVATIONS
MATERIALS
