Cremma Kosuyolu Cafe

Cremma Koşuyolu follows the principle that runs through all our work: taking something familiar from tradition and reworking it into something new, so a space feels rooted and surprising at once. The starting point here was the setting itself, Koşuyolu is a neighbourhood of old houses with traditional bay windows (cumba), and the existing building sat awkwardly against that fabric, out of step with its surroundings. So our idea was to reconnect the space to its context: to borrow the language of those old, bay-windowed houses and rework it into a contemporary café that belongs to the street again. Rather than layering on decoration, we built the café around that single idea and carried it through everything; the architecture, the custom furniture, the light so guests feel the concept without needing to name it.

Our main focus was to reconcile the building with its surroundings, to take a structure that stood apart from Koşuyolu's old, bay-windowed houses and give it back a sense of belonging, while still reading as clearly contemporary. We wanted a café with a strong, unmistakable identity that also feels genuinely livable, a place people want to be in, not just photograph with every element serving one concept and holding up to daily use. For us, success meant the concept surviving intact from the first sketch to the last built detail, and the finished café feeling like it had always been part of the street.

We see Cremma's design language as something that can grow beyond a single space. Rather than copying the interior, we'd carry its underlying idea, reworking a place's own architectural context into a contemporary café, into new locations, so each one responds to its own setting while still belonging to the same family. The aim is to let the concept evolve as it travels, not simply repeat it.