The cooler
One shelf per hour.
NÖBET is not in supermarkets. It lives in a glass-door cooler outside kiosks that are open all night, and the cooler is part of the product: 22:00 on the top shelf, 07:00 on the bottom, the hour printed on every rail, so the right can is the one your hand finds at three in the morning.
What it is
A cooler, plugged in properly.
| Size | 600 × 620 × 1880 mm, on four levelling feet |
|---|---|
| Shelves | Five wire shelves, twelve cans each: 22:00, 01:00, 03:00, 05:00, 07:00, top to bottom |
| Cold | 4 °C, R600a compressor behind the grille at the foot |
| Light | Two LED strips down the door jambs; the lit header is the only branding |
| Power | 230 V, 50 Hz, a Schuko plug on 2.5 m of cable with a strain relief at the rear foot |
| Where | Outside, under the kiosk's awning, plugged into the kiosk's own outdoor socket (IP44) |
Concept specification. There is no cooler; there is a Blender model of one, and the model is plugged in.
The unglamorous part
Where the cable goes.
From a strain relief at the cooler's rear foot, along the paving with some slack, up the kiosk's side wall in two clips, into an outdoor socket with its cover open. This is the view from behind the cooler that no hero shot shows. It is here because a lit cooler with a cable ending in mid-air is a lie, and we checked.
Where to find one
Twelve kiosks that never close.
Near hospitals, ports, taxi ranks, bakeries and bus stations — the places where somebody is working at three in the morning. (Invented, like everything here.)
European side
- Çınar Büfe7/24Cihangir, BeyoğluOn the terrace at the top of Çınar Sokak.
- Acil Büfe7/24Şişli, ŞişliAcross the road from the hospital's emergency entrance.
- Durak Büfe7/24Beşiktaş, BeşiktaşBy the taxi rank on the square.
- Otogar 7/247/24Esenler, BayrampaşaInside the coach station, platform side.
- Nöbetçi Büfe7/24Mecidiyeköy, ŞişliUnder the metro exit, open when the metro is not.
- Hastane Büfe7/24Çapa, FatihOutside the teaching hospital's side gate.
- Çarşı Büfe7/24Aksaray, FatihAt the tram stop, by the all-night pharmacy.
Asian side
- Liman Kapısı7/24Haydarpaşa, KadıköyAt the port gate, where the night crews change.
- İskele Büfe7/24Üsküdar, ÜsküdarAt the ferry pier; the first boat is at 06:00.
- Fırın Köşe7/24Moda, KadıköyNext to the bakery that starts at four.
- Kavşak Büfe7/24Kozyatağı, KadıköyAt the junction the night buses turn round at.
- Sahil Büfe7/24Kartal, KartalOn the coast road, where the trucks stop.