Flower Child, Austin: A Brand-Matched Enclosure on The Domain’s Busiest Sidewalk
Flower Child at The Domain has a patio that runs the length of the storefront and wraps a corner, behind an iron rail and under a black-and-white striped awning. Fox Restaurant Concepts wanted it open through an Austin winter without touching the look their designers had built. The answer was clear panels with black borders sized to the awning, two steel exit doors, and an install that fit between the planter boxes and the rail.
What we built
- Customer: Flower Child, Austin, Texas, at The Domain, owned and designed in-house by Fox Restaurant Concepts. Fox’s facilities and design teams ran the project with us directly.
- 13 manual roll-up panels in clear vinyl with black solid borders, 15 inches top and bottom, zippered sides, track mounted to the awning frame.
- Sizes: from 54 to 147 inches wide and up to 118 inches (9 feet 10 inches) tall. About 1,050 square feet of panel across roughly 124 feet of frontage.
- 2 steel-framed exit doors, flat-bar bottoms pinned to the slab, so the patio keeps its egress with the panels down.
- 3 weather flaps at the corners and the lattice wall.
- Black borders and door frames to match the awning and the ironwork.
Before and after
Before, the patio was the rail, the planters and the awning, open to the sidewalk and to whatever the weather did. The panels hang from the awning frame and land behind the rail, so from the sidewalk the planters and the ironwork still read first. The clear vinyl is wide and the borders are narrow, which keeps the restaurant visible from the street at night.
Five steps, February to November 2020
- February 21, 2020: quote to Fox’s facilities director. The doors were first held for a later phase, then folded back in so the patio could be done in one visit.
- September 25, 2020: design consultation on site, every bay measured and the two door locations set at the corner and the lattice wall.
- October 1, 2020: layout approved and into manufacturing, black confirmed against the awning.
- October 5, 2020: deposit received.
- November 3, 2020: installed and signed off.
What made this one different
Working inside someone else’s design. Fox builds every Flower Child to a careful look, and the brief was that the enclosure should not change it. That drove the black borders at the awning’s stripe height, the door frames matched to the rail, and panel widths set by the awning bays rather than by what was easiest to make. It also drove the schedule: the sign-off came in early November, in time for the first cold front.
Fox has stayed a customer. We have been back to The Domain for service and have since worked with the group on other locations.
Specs
| System | Manual roll-up clear panels, 13 units, 3 flaps, 2 steel exit doors |
| Vinyl | Clear with black solid borders, flame-rated to NFPA 701 |
| Largest unit | 147 inches wide; tallest 118 inches |
| Wind rating | Manual panels are rated 45 mph deployed and tied down at this size; roll them up for anything stronger. |
| Warranty | 3 years on workmanship |
| Lead time | About 6 weeks from deposit for manual panels |
| Installation | Our own crew. Outlet locations only; we do not do the electrical. |
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