Engineering firm Arup has designed parklets, hybrid street furniture and planters to help Liverpool's restaurants reopen as the UK's coronavirus lockdown lifts.
Arup collaborated with the city council and Meristem Design to develop the scheme, called Liverpool Without Walls. The modular elements slot together to create outdoor seating areas made from hardwood, screened from each other with plants and perspex glass.
The modular designs can be cleaned easily according to Arup
"The modular parklets are designed to be easily swept up, cleaned and washed down with flexible furniture which can be easily moved," said Arup's Jonathan Mottershead.
"The cafe-style seating means that chairs and tables to be easily stacked for cleaning," he told Dezeen.  "This will also enable businesses to manage customer spacing more flexibly, such as catering for different group sizes." Nine parklets to be installed in Liverpool
Starting on 4 July the first of nine parklets will be installed on Bold Street, a thoroughfare in the city with many bars and cafes.
From 4 July in most parts of the UK pubs, restaurants and cafes will be allowed to open as part of changes to the country's lockdown rules. Only groups made up of members of two households will be able to sit indoors while dining out, however.
Groups of up to six people who are not from the same household can only gather outdoors. This means venues will need more outdoor seating and ways of keeping customers a saf...