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BGSU · The Oaks
A ground-up dining environment that demonstrates designSMART’s ability to help shape a complete campus destination from the building experience through foodservice and interiors.
Designing the experience from the ground up.
The Oaks expands the portfolio beyond renovation work, showing how foodservice planning, architecture and interior character can be coordinated as one idea.
The finished environment combines scale, natural materials and varied dining experiences to create a memorable destination for campus life.
Concept
Visualization established the tone and hospitality character before the building was completed.
Completed environment
The completed facility carries the original vision into a large, active campus dining destination.
Ground-up scale
Multiple views show the breadth of the finished dining environment and its relationship to the new building.
More ways to gather
The Oaks uses distinct dining zones, open sightlines and varied material character to give a large ground-up facility a more intimate hospitality scale.
