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19AUG 2012

Tori Tori / Rojkind Arquitectos + Esrawe Studio

Posted in Architecture - Restaurants by Romina Carpentieri

Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio have designed Tori Tori, a Japanese interesting restaurant near the area of Polanco, in Mexico City.

Architect Michel Rojkind and Industrial Designer Hector Esrawe signed up for the project and the results are more than satisfying.

The area of Polanco is in a costant development since has suffered some important functional changes.

With this project Rojkind and Esrawe wanted to give strenght to the new program that they proposed to transform the space inside out.

The client thought to a Japanese restaurant but he decided to give the architects the approval if they had any additions or other ideas in designing the place.

So the restaurant has become a cosmopolitan place, filled with open spaces and large terraces, with also a sake bar and a temple that is made especially for the sushi lovers, in the outdoor.

Once you enter you’ll find yourself in a terrace, where you are embraced by natural vegetation.

The organic façade and landscape were carefully designed to become an extension of the restaurant creating a strong relationship between the inside and the outside; it fits to the background and seems to make the relationship between the inside and outside in contrast.

The façade, which seems to emerge from the soil climbing up on the building, as the natural ivy that surrounding the retaining walls, is made up of two self-supporting layers of steel plates.

Each room in the restaurant has a unique especially function.

This particularity is espressed with the furniture were designed to represent each room with a different style.

“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.

” Michel Rojkind, rojkind arquitectos “We seek in the project a chance for the users to link with the different ambiances and choose their favorites.

Each space’s materials, setup and characteristics towards the furniture generate a wide spectrum of options and sensations for its assiduous clients.

” I.

Héctor Esrawe, ESRAWE Studio.

City:
Polanco, Mexico City

Design team:
Architectural Project: Rojkind Arquitectos + Esrawe Studio

Project Team (Rojkind Arquitectos): Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke J., Enrique F. de la Barrera, Daniela Bustamante, Daniel Hernández

Project Team (ESRAWE Studio): Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho, Alejandro Zárate, Marcela Muñoz, Edgar Sánchez, Rodrigo L. Franco

Photographer:
Paúl Rivera

Status:
Completed

Website:
http://www.rojkindarquitectos.com/

Website (references):
http://architectism.com/

Year:
Design Date: 2009 Completion Date: 2011

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