Chicago, Illinois · 2024
Project
Wind Creek Chicago Southland
Location
Chicago, IL
Year
2024
Status
Open · November 2025

Wind Creek Chicago Southland

Creative direction and experience design on a 24-hour generative content system for Wind Creek Chicago Southland’s lobby — leading previs and content, contributing experience design across the installation.

Lobby System Generative Content
01The Work

A suspended lobby centerpiece spans the casino’s primary arrival space — a cluster of embedded LED elements integrated into a sculptural form, programmed with continuously evolving generative content. The piece reads as both architectural fixture and active media surface, anchoring the lobby’s experiential register from arrival through late-night.

Concept render — Wind Creek Chicago Southland centerpiece

The content system is the design. A 24-hour generative pipeline shifts the centerpiece’s mood across times of day and operational contexts — defaulting to Wind Creek’s hospitality palette, switching to Bulls programming on game days, and modulating across seasonal and special-event states without physical reconfiguration. One sculpture, many expressions.

Centerpiece, Bulls game-day expression

Coherent Sense led creative direction on the previs that sold the project and on the generative content shown on it — directing visual language, palette, motion logic, and brand integration across hospitality and cross-brand contexts. Experience design across the installation in collaboration with Pure Partners (brand strategy), Nelson (architecture), and Digital Ambiance (lighting and media execution) for Wind Creek Hospitality and the Chicago Bulls.

Behind the scenes at Wind Creek Chicago Southland
02Credits
Creative Direction & Experience Design
Coherent Sense
Client
Wind Creek Hospitality · Chicago Bulls
Architecture
Nelson
Brand & Content Strategy
Pure Partners
Lighting & Media Execution
Digital Ambiance
Year
2024
Status
Open · November 2025