Projects

Carlotta Buyaka

Year

2012

Client

İstanbul Doors

Category

Interiors

Area

205m²

Team

Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Miguel Zapatero, Işıl Budak, Serhan Gürkan@GMG, Bora Mutlu@GMG

Photographs

Ali Bekman

The venue is a realisation of a bespoke restaurant concept commissioned by the İstanbul Doors group, located in Buyaka Shopping Mall. The interior design was carried out together with Serhan Gürkan and Bora Mutlu.
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design
Carlotta Buyaka interior design

The Carlotta restaurant concept came out of an invited competition held by İstanbul Doors, a company operating several restaurant formats, and was developed after the winning concept proposal prepared by BFTA together with GMG, the office we collaborated with.

In shaping the concept, the brand was targeting customers from the upper socio-economic group looking for a light and healthy lunch in locations with a high concentration of white-collar workers.

Carlotta Buyaka interior design

Having carried out field research, the company stated that its priority was a spatial language addressing the character of that audience. The interior concept was therefore designed for short visits, for a place one is a guest in rather than lives in: plain, open and quickly read rather than heavily clad, unobtrusive, and able to respond to rapid change.

A modular inventory adaptable to different store types was also prepared at the concept stage to make implementation easier.