The new normal that has already come as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic will require rethinking and new concepts for public spaces.
It’s now clear that many people will continue to use public spaces regardless of the risk of spreading the infection. At the same time, cafes/restaurants as a very important industry for our cities, will begin to reopen in order to economically survive this period. This can increase the risk of infection manifold.
To better organize life in public space and to minimize staying inside cafes / restaurants, one intervention proposal may be to place seats with a distance of 2 meters from all directions, in which citizens who buy Take-Away coffee/food (contributing to the gastronomy industry), continue to stay and sit in public spaces by still implementing measures for social distancing.
The seat system is designed in such a way that the surface that can be touched, especially with hands, is minimal.
Installing and removing the seats is easy, as they take up the space between the floor tiles: The floor tiles are removed, the seats are placed, in which case the tiles are positioned back to serve as stiffening weight for the seats. This makes this intervention affordable and reversible.
