The interior is organised as a compact and flexible system. Seating lines the windows, while the kitchen and display counters are placed deeper inside. Storage — essential for a café-canteen format with a significant takeaway component — is not concealed but exposed as part of the architecture. Custom plywood boxes of varying depth are mounted on a metal grid, forming a backlit cubic wall visible from the street. The grid allows the composition to shift over time, making the wall both practical and adaptive.
This modular system continues into the main spatial accent — a painted plywood art wall created in collaboration with Marat Morik. Conceived as a mixed-media installation, it combines painting, applied fragments and integrated lighting. The piece introduces a contrasting layer of visual density within an otherwise restrained interior.
Light materials, bright colour accents and integrated lighting scenarios visually expand the narrow space. Ventilation and technical systems are concealed within the existing beams. Durable, hard-wearing finishes were selected throughout, including a white terrazzo floor with dark marble aggregate. The perforated acoustic ceiling subtly outlines the map of Norway, while exposed brick walls are coated with writable paint, allowing the menu to become part of the interior surface.

Project team: Evgeniy Shchetinkin, Elizaveta Semeonova, Artwork by Marat Morik.
Photo: Alex Zarodov

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