Japanese Tori-Tori Restaurant | Rojkind Arquitectos + Esrawe Studio

Japanese Tori-Tori Restaurant in Mexico City by Mexico based architect firm Rojkind Arquitectos in collaboration with Esrawe Studio is now under construction. The building features the organic façade and landscape that become an extension of the restaurant to create a strong relationship between the inside and the outside.

Considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City and due to its remarkable success, Tori-Tori is now moving to a bigger location in the same area of Polanco, Mexico City, where Architect Michel Rojkind and Industrial Designer Hector Esrawe teamed up to make it happen.

At the residential area in Polanco that has seen changes in its zoning, houses have been transformed to office spaces or restaurants. Sometimes things happen so unnoticeably, that just a small sign appears where a new space has been developed with a completely different program inside, while preserving its exterior.

Aware of this, Rojkind and Esrawe wanted to give enough strength to the new program that they proposed to transform the space inside out. Taking advantage of the plot’s conditions, the parking space will be left where it is, to use the budget mainly for restructuring and renovating the house, stripping the residential interior and removing all familiar features to produce an entirely different environment.

"We are being coherent with its culinary know-how and creating the accurate environment and situations for a gastronomical experience. The final result is achieved not only by working with the client but with his complete staff as well."


"At rojkind arquitectos we are very rigorous about experimenting with digital design as well as getting things built. That’s why we have specially focused on how to translate complex geometries into very simple and understandable drawings that benefit from local manufacturing, as is the case of working in Mexico City.

Our vast experience building over the past years has made us aware of the incredible local labor that would be very difficult to get in different countries. Depending on the geographical location of new commissions given to the office we do enough research to understand in which area we can benefit from local conditions and enhance the final result to make it unique."

Michel Rojkind, rojkind arquitectos

+ Project credits / data
Project: Tori-Tori Restaurant
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Construction: 629 sq.meters
Program: Japanese Restaurant
Client: Dr. Katsumi Kumoto Kawasaki
Design year: 2008
Date of completion: 2010

Architectural project: Rojkind Arquitectos [Michel Rojkind] + Esrawe Studio [Héctor Esrawe]

Rojkind Arquitectos
Principal in Charge: Michel Rojkind
Project Team: Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke Jaber, Enrique F. de la Barrera

ESRAWE Studio
Principal in Charge: Héctor Esrawe
Project Team: Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Ryht, Alejandro Castelao, Jorge Bracho
Facade consultants [3D Studies]: Kokkugia [Roland Snooks, Robert Stuart- Smith]

Facade Engineering: GRUPO MAS [Ing. Eduardo Flores]
Construction: ZDA desarrollo + arquitectura [Yuri Zagorin]
Lighting Design: luz en arquitectura [Arq. Kai Diederichsen]
Audio & Video Project: NTX New Technology Experience
Landscape Design: entorno taller de paisaje
Structural Engineer: Ing. Juan Felipe Heredia
M.E.P.: QUANTUM Design
Furniture: ESRAWE Studio
Kitchen: San-Son
Visualization: © Glessner Group
Invited Artist: Photographer Guido Torres


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Mixed Use Tower | Moho Architects

Mixed use tower in San Jose de Costa Rica, designed by Spanish firm Moho Architects which is currently in schematic design stage and is expected to be completed in 2012.

+ Project description courtesy of Moho Architects.

Rising above the skyline of San Jose in Costa Rica, this mixed use tower will be a new landmark, providing crucial amenities for the city, sheltered from the tropical local climate. The concept is driven by a progressive environmental strategy that is expected to establish new benchmarks for the region. Set right in front the Sabana Park, the new “Central Park” of the city, a recreational area in continuous construction development.

This building offers an ideal model of sustainable urban living by reducing reliance on transport and balancing energy consumption between its mixed-use program of day- and night-time activities. Program include mixed commercial and retail spaces together with a business centre, offices, conference rooms, hotel floors and Casino. The tower rises 25th floors above the city, At the top, a viewing platform and restaurant offer spectacular panoramic views over the city.

The tower splits and creases independently as it rises into the sky, creating both a sense of individuality and unity. This “head split” configuration, permits natural lighting, while sky courts filled with vegetation punctuate at intervals the tower and mitigate the hot climate.
The development will take advantage of a number of sustainable energy strategies and key to the energy performance of the building are its wooden brise-soleil facades, designed to filter solar gain and to encourage daylight to permeate the complex. The tower is intended to be a paradigm for passive environmental control, providing an alternative to the more conventional models of sealed and air-conditioned glass stumps. The layered facade cuts air-conditioning load and the plan encourages daylight, reducing the need for artificial lighting.
The project is currently in the schematic design phase and is expected to be completed in 2012.

Project credits / data
Project: Mixed use towerLocation:

Bulevar Las Américas, Sabana Norte, San José, Costa RicaArchitecture:

Moho Architects

Built Surface: 28.000 sqm

Preliminary drawings: December 2008

Expected completion: 2012

DONGDAEMUN DESIGN PLAZA & PARK

Fuente: Zaha Hadid Architects
La ciudad de Seúl, Corea desarrolló un concurso de diseño internacional por invitación bajo recomendación de varios expertos relacionados en la materia con el objetivo de que el concurso daría como resultado un proyecto de calidad impresionante, adicionalmente a mejorar el valor agregado y promover su reconocimiento mundial. Esto se logró al invitar arquitectos de renombre mundial con el fin de hacer la Plaza de Diseño y el Parque Dongdaemun una meca para la industria del diseño global y hacer de la ciudad de Seúl un hito.

Programa

• Parque (incluyendo la restauración de tesoros culturales y la demolición del Estadio Dongdaemun)

• Complejo Mundial de Diseño: 62,800 m2 de área construida.

• Área subterránea: 11,000m2En el concurso organizado y en el que sólo 8 estudios de arquitectura fueron seleccionados e invitados por el comité de selección y que contraba de participantes Coreanos: Jo Seong-Ryong, Choi Mun-Gyu, Seung Hyo-Sang, Yu Geol y participantes Extranjeros: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, FOA London, MVRDV y resultando ganador del Primer Lugar Zaha Hadid Architects, Jo Seong-Ryong del Segundo Lugar y Steven Holl Architects del Tercer Lugar.

Cubriendo un área de 83,000 m2 (incluyendo la plaza cultural subterránea), el proyecto Design Plaza estará equipado con espacios para exhibición multi-propósito y sala de convenciones, sala de exhibición, centro de información, centro educativo, archivo digital, museo y laboratorio de diseño, así como otras instalaciones diversas.

El proyecto Design Plaza será una meca global para el diseño creativo al organizar exhibiciones internacionales de diseño y conferencias, construir una red de diseñadores para la cooperación local y con el extranjero, y desarrollar varios programas de soporte para el diseño creativo y la mercadotecnia.Será sede de la industria de la moda de Dongdaemun al construir y operar una mapa de la moda y la mercadotecnia de soporte, producción y capacitación.Desarrollo de una plaza cultural subterránea.

El proyecto conectará el distrito de negocios dividido en sectores este y oeste con el área Heunginmun-ro justo enmedio a través del sótano para la integración total del área y al construir una red peatonal subterránea ligada a los pasos peatonales en Euljiro y las estaciones de las líneas del metro 2, 4 y 5, mejorando el ambiente peatonal a nivel de la calle. Conectando a la Plaza de Diseño y al Parque Dongdaemun estructuralmente y funcionalmente, la plaza cultural subterránea servirá como un sitio destacado para las diversas actividades culturales incluyendo exhibiciones y presentaciones artísticas.

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10 Bowling Green LaneLondon EC1R 0BQ

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Nestlé Application Group Querétaro | Rojkind Arquitectos

The work that Rojkind Arquitectos has completed for another pair in Nestlé factories can be signed on this streak. Starting from the hallway to its chocolate factory located on the outsides of Toluca, near Mexico City: a structure made out of faceted planes attached to the existent factory that works as a Museum that still has Phase 2 to develope. The second assignment, on the industrial zone of Querétaro, a Laboratory building which´s main objetives are: To be the open inovation example for Nestlé and the rig driver for Nestlé Mexico through continuous consumer, client and business relevant innovation for flexible manufacturing, to be the packaging competence centre and innovation drive for Nestle Mexico, and to operate as a satellite to PTC Marsyville to become the centre of competence in liquid beverages in Latin America.

In addition to the relation with existing industrial structures, this new commission involved an extra challenge. In 1996 UNESCO declared the historic center of Queretaro World Heritage Site, which had unforeseen effects even in the industrial periphery: the new building had to be an arched portico –tradition oblige. Rojkind faced this issue reinterpreting both the arch and the portico. If an arch is a still fragment of a dome or –what is the same– a dome is an amplified arch turning over its own axis, doesn’t matter: a dome can fulfill the demand for an arch without falling back on clichés. In this case, a series of intersected domes, multiplied as a foam, form the matrix of an open and continuous space –the portico– which expands while another space, formed by simple boxes cladded in a satin finish reflective glass , contains the expansion of spheres –which in turn extrudes– and houses the laboratory program.
While the apparently metallic and impregnable exteriors are opaque, the interiors of these boxes, painted in different colors, have an almost theatrical quality: in their white working coats, researches float in a continuous blue, yellow or green, cut out against a contrasting color. Sometimes, when one of the exterior panels reveals itself as a window, these interiors can be guessed from the outside.
Maybe elsewhere this project would have been built using sophisticated technologies for the customized production of specific parts according to the complex geometry of the spheres. Here, this geometry had to be translated from formal and spatial logics into a simple, almost colloquial constructive logic, which allowed local construction builders to build the foamy space by means of the physical intersection of semi-spherical domes assembled with arches and rings of steel rods.

The final result is a series of unified contrast: metallic, glossy exterior, with and against brilliant, colorful interiors, the abstract planes of the exterior boxes, with and against the exuberance of the connected spheres. It may be that the strength of this project results from this play of opposites that, in a dynamic way and depending on the observer position, can be dominant in a moment and discrete the next one. Industrial building recovers that way, re-thought and reloaded, part of that which itself gave once to architecture: clarity and force.
+ Project credits

CONSTRUCTION: 700 sq.meters

PROGRAM: Laboratories, Offices, Auditorium, Tasting area

CLIENT: NESTLÉDESIGN

YEAR: 2007

DATE OF COMPLETION: 2009
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT: ROJKIND ARQUITECTOSPRICIPAL

IN CHARGE: MICHEL ROJKINDPROJECT

LEADERS: AGUSTÍN PEREYRA, PAULINA GOYCOOLEAPROJECT

TEAM: MORITZ MELCHERT, TERE LEVY, ISAAC SMEKE, TOMAS KRISTOF, FRANCISCO GORDILLO, ANDRÉS ALTESOR, JUAN PABLO ESPINOSA3D

MASSING: JUAN CARLOS VIDALSLANDSCAPE: ROJKIND ARQUITECTOSFINAL

PHOTOS: © Paúl Rivera

NESTLÉ SUPERVISION: FLAVIO GUERRERO, CRISTIAN MORENO

CONSTRUCTION: SLCI ENGINEER JOSE SOLISFACADE

ENGINEERING: VYCISA [JUAN PABLO CASILLAS, CYBELLE HERNÁNDEZ.]

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: JUAN FELIPE HEREDIAM.

E.P.: QUANTUM

DESIGNFURNITURE: ESRAWE DISEÑO / ARNE QUINZECARPETS: INTERFACE

+ All images courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos

fuente:http://plusmood.com/2009/05/nestle-application-group-queretaro-rojkind-arquitectos/

PROYECTO PARA PABELLÓN DE SINGAPUR : NUBE PIXELADA

El estudio de arquitectura Design Act con sede en la ciudad de Singapur fue finalista en el concurso para el Desarrollo del Proyecto del Pabellón para Singapur de la Expo Shangai 2010 organizado por el Consejo de Turismo de Singapur.

Bajo el título "MI SUEÑO, NUESTRA VISIÓN (MY DREAM, OUR VISION)", el proyecto de Design Act utiliza cubos desfasados para generar una escultura espectacular que es visualmente impactante y evocadora.El pabellón esta realizado a base de una nube digital iluminada flotando sobre un siempre cambiante pasto "verde". Invita a ingresar a un espacio subterráneo oscuro con sonidos de fondo que evocan a los servicios urbanos que sirven a la ciudad, y que te catapultan dentro de una nube blanca y brillante, dónde se exhorta a los visitantes a publicar sus suseños. Realizado de 3866 cubos de tamaños modulares con diferentes niveles de transparencia, el pabellón está estratégicamente inclinado hacia la base para permitir a los visitantes la experiencia del ritual de convertir sus sueños en realidad.

Acerca del Pabellón

El Pabellón de Singapur para la Exposición Mundial Shangai 2010 impulsado para presentar a Singapur como el perfecto ejemplo de una ciudad que mantiene todas las posibilidades de transformar la vida de aquellos quienes entran en contacto con ella. El objetivo del Pabellón es el de ofrecer a la ciudad de Singapur como una ciudad de posibilidades y una ciudad de sueños y visiones. Y tanto como pueda transformar las vidas, sueños y visiones puede incorporar la idea de posibilidades en la medida de las vidas que transforma.El Pabellón muestra los ángulos de una Ciudad que es continuamente impulsada por los cambios progresivos. Este parteaguas de múltiples lenguajes y culturas que también es representativo del espíritu de Singapur: E incluye el lado humano, su pulso y emoción, logros y oportunidades de la ciudad de Singapur.

Art Museum Strongoli | Coop Himmelb(l)au

Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au always give a very good impression to me in every design, this time, the new Art Museum Strongoli in Calabria, by Coop Himmelb(l)au, is the third project in Italy. The art museum is situated on the top of the ‘Motta Grande’ hill overlooking the city, featuring a very long cantilever terrace offering a panoramic view facing the sea.

"The new Art Museum Strongoli in Calabria is the third COOP HIMMELB(L)AU project in Italy. The museum is not only a cultural center but also understood as a generator for a future development of Calabria, a place for cultural entertainment and recreation."

The Art Museum is situated on the top of the “Motta Grande” hill in front of the city, visible from far away. The new museum houses not only flexible exhibition spaces, but also a small “multi-hall” and a panorama restaurant.

The project is a composition of three main elements: the emblematic, cone-shaped construction with the entrance is orientated towards the city, while the cantilevering restaurant at the opposite end of the building offers a panoramic terrace facing the sea in the east. Both public attractors are linked by a two-storey exhibition volume.

The exhibition areas are determined to be as flexible as possible, supported by underground service facilities accessed via two elevators. The multi-hall can be used as temporary exhibition space, lecture hall, auditorium and cinema or simply as an extension space of the foyer for public events."

Project: Art Museum Strongoli

Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au

Location: Calabria, Italy

Program: museum, exhibition spaces, restaurant, Multi-hall, lecture hall, auditorium and cinema

+ Project description, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Helix Hotel | Leeser Architecture

This is the invited competition project won by New York practice Leeser Architecture - Helix Hotel. The five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, featuring an iconic design and state of the art technology that creating dynamic mini-city in the UAE.

+ Text below provided by architect, Leeser Architecture

Leeser Architecture, an internationally recognized design firm, has won a invited competition for a five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Called the Helix Hotel for its staggered floor plates, it rests in the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid. With the Helix, Leeser Architecture has devised a new way to consider hotel culture in the Emirates, highlighting elements that are usually unseen, and playfully enlivening those parts that traditionally remain static and mundane.