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Utilize large scale venues (arenas, stadiums, theaters, etc.) club and individual suites for small group dining experiences.
Restaurant Suite Dining
Utilize large scale venues (arenas, stadiums, theaters, etc.) club and individual suites for small group dining experiences.
Safe, outdoor seating solution
Design for outdoor seating pod, which controls the climate and minimizes airborne contaminents.
Rotating restaurants in Chicago’s Parks
Use Chicago’s parks to host city-wide dining halls that use community-based and rotating restaurants, bringing citizens to new neighborhoods
Chica-Go! Dine!
Incentivize Chicago consumers to contribute to outdoor dining culture through various challenges and requisite rewards, accessible on app.
On closed streets, space 8' x 8', 3-wall, heated bench booths along curbs 6' apart with 4' round, heat lamp high top tables down the middle.
Outdoor Winter Booth & High Top Table Dining on Closed Streets
On closed streets, space 8' x 8', 3-wall, heated bench booths along curbs 6' apart with 4' round, heat lamp high top tables down the middle.
Open at the top
A Transom located at the highest point of a slanted roof, is opened to let the warmest air rise up out of the tent structure.
Pneumatic Pods
Pneumatic pods use pre-heated indoor air to provide insulated and weather-resistant, modular zones for outdoor eating.
Winged Blanket Tables, Privacy Screens and Wingback Chairs: A unique 3 part solution to extend the outdoor seating of Chicago restaurants
3-part solution: Winged Blanket tables, Privacy Screens, and attachable Wingback Chair Screens to insulate any furniture into winter ready.
In, Out, or To-Go?
A quick quick fix that is affordable, has been proven to work, and is still being used to this day.
Project Steamy
Find the best option and most affordable way to save our restaurant's future!
The Form of Free Air
The Form is a modular design solution that creates a comfortable/safe dining experience while embracing a culture of free air year-round.
Prioritize worker safety; contactless serving
Duo barrier system and contactless serving measures are ways to protect workers when they are serving outdoor dining
Community-based build design
Save favorite local spots during a cold Chicago COVID-19 winter
'City Cloche'
A cloche is a small glass covering used for protecting plants from cold temperatures. This proposal applies this concept to people.
Dining Tent with Sliding Walls
The Dining Tent is an outdoor enclosure that allows for flexible dining for patrons and simple setup by restaurants.
Reuse and recycle used office cubicle partitions at minimal cost for restaurants to create barriers to add shelter from the wind for outdoor
Reuse Office Cubicle Partitions to Shelter Outdoor Patrons
Reuse and recycle used office cubicle partitions at minimal cost for restaurants to create barriers to add shelter from the wind for outdoor
The City That Works, Together. Get Out. Dine Out. Help Out, Chicago.
Bring together multiple industries that have been impacted by COVID with a season-long restaurant event throughout the city.
Low-cost Greenhouse with Comprehensive Ventilation System For Outdoor Dining
Combining outdoor dining and green spaces in urban areas, this solution puts a luxurious twist on a simple, European dining experience.
A Quick-Install, Scalable Radiant-Heat Reflecting Enclosed Walls With Open-Roof Made With Inexpensive Off-The-Shelf Parts
A Low Cost, Practical and Modular Method of Creating A Comfortable Space for Outdoor Dining During Cold Weather and Snowy/Rainy Condition
Hot Beans
A design concept that will ignite the cultural shift of outdoor dining by collaborating art and technology.
Plate Beacon: What's On Your Plate? What's On Their Plate?
Time for all to become "essential consumers" and help the restaurant industry get back on its feet while also helping to fight local hunger.
