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In Polanco, Mexico City By ROJKIND ARQUITECTOS + ESRAWE STUDIO
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I- SUITE HOTEL
In VIALE REGIMA ELENA 28, RIMINI, ITALY By GIOVANNI QUADRELLI /SIMONE MICHELI
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TORI TORI BAR ARCHITECT
POLANCO, MEXICO CITY ROJKIND ARQUITECTOS + ESRAWE STUDIO
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PAÚL RIVERA
TORI TORI BAR
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TORI TORI Although the client’s requirements were oriented towards a Japanese interpretation, it was not literal, he wanted the place to have its own personal expression.
onsidered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City and due to its remarkable success, Tori-Tori has now moved to a bigger location in the same area of Polanco, Mexico City, where Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio 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 main focus was placed on renovating the house, stripping the residential interior and removing all familiar features to produce an entirely different environment.
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Although the client’s requirements were oriented towards a Japanese interpretation, it was not literal, he wanted the place to have its own personal expression, contemporary and cosmopolitan, by enhancing its existing spatial conditions through different experiences, the new range of open spaces, its terraces, its sake bar and its own exclusive temple oriented at highly demanding sushi lovers. Maintaining a very intimate and subtle feel towards the first encounter with the exterior, once you enter you’ll find yourself in a terrace, where eating and drinking are embraced by natural vegetation. The building’s organic façade and landscape were carefully designed to become an extension of the restaurant creating a strong relationship between the inside and the outside. The interior receives and follows the exterior with subtle contrasts. Each room has its own nature and shows a clear relationship with its function. The furniture was inspired and made for Tori Tori and developed with a direct orientation through each space. During more than eight months a complete collection of chairs and tables where created, for both exterior and Continued on Pg 6
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Right Image: The building’s organic façade and landscape were carefully designed to become an extension of the restaurant creating a strong relationship between the inside and the outside.
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interior use. 1-4 ‘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.D. Héctor Esrawe, ESRAWE Studio The façade, which seems to emerge from the ground climbing up through the building, as if mimicking the natural ivy surrounding the retaining walls, is made up of two self-supporting layers of steel plates cut with a CNC machine and handcrafted to exact specifications. ‘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 The façade’s pattern responds to the inside openings, filtering light, shadows, and views that will constantly invade the interior spaces. An atmosphere enriched by the spectrum of subtle changes.
Right Image: The furniture was inspired and made for Tori Tori and developed with a direct orientation through each space
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Image: We seek in the project a chance for the users to link with the different ambiances and choose their favorites
Image: Each room has its own nature and shows a clear relationship with its function.
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Image: Each space’s materials, setup and characteristics towards the furniture generate a wide spectrum of options and sensations for its assiduous clients.’
Credits
Architectural Project rojkind arquitectos + Esrawe Studio rojkind arquitectos Michel Rojkind [Founding Partner] Gerardo Salinas [Partner] Project Team Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos,Isaac Smeke J., Enrique F. de la Barrera, Daniela Bustamante,Daniel Hernández ESRAWE Studio, Héctor Esrawe [Principal in Charge] Project Team Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho, Rodrigo L. Franco Design Computational Consultants, Kokkugia [Roland Snooks, Robert Stuart-Smith]
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Construction ZDA desarrollo + arquitectura [Yuri Zagorin] Structural Engineering Ing. Juan Felipe Heredia Facade Engineering GRUPO MAS [Ing. Eduardo Flores] M.E.P. QUANTUM Diseño Lightning Design luz en arquitectura [Arq. Kai Diederichsen]
Audio & Video Design NTX New Technology Experience Landscape Design Verde 360° Furniture Esrawe Studio Kitchen San-Son
Background Image: The client’s requirements were, contemporary and cosmopolitan, by enhancing its existing spatial conditions through different experiences, the new range of open spaces, its terraces, its sake bar and its own exclusive temple oriented at highly demanding sushi lovers.
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Visualization ©Glessner Group [www.glessnergroup.com] Interior Visualization Esrawe Studio Photographer Paúl Rivera
Right Image: During more than eight months a complete collection of chairs and tables where created, for both exterior and interior use.
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i-SUITE HOTEL VIALE REGIMA ELENA 28, RIMINI, ITALY
LOCATION ARCHITECT
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GIOVANNI QUADRELLI /SIMONE MICHELI
SIMON MICHELI ARCHITECTS
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i-SUITE
THE REFLECTION OF
AMBIENTHOTELS:
i-SUITE represented a great challenge of setting new standsrds and eliminating bias in the hotel sector, taking the adventure of creating a place where people feel at ease, are amazed and they can carry a good memory of us and our cities when being home.
hen we first imagined the i-SUITE plan, we aimed at providing our guests with a place different from the conventional hotels, and most of all different from most Rimini Hotels. In daily life we subdue all things to rationality, we repeat and optimize each action in such a way that numbers and ratios become the basic criteria for defining the shape of bedrooms, bathrooms and common spaces which seem to have more in common with algebra than with the warm and touching atmosphere Ambient hotel aims at creating as it has always done so far. At that time i-SUITE represented a great challenge of setting new standards and eliminating bias in the hotel sector, taking the adventure of creating a place where people feel at ease, are amazed and they can carry a good memory of us and our cities when being home. These are the reasons why we asked our designers to plan rooms having all different shapes and not resembling parallelepipeds but rather the irregular spaces of a luxurious mansion while being at the same time domestic as a cosy house. We designed our rooms as much as 40, 50 and even 70 square meters in order to give our guests a great sense of freedom, all the room overlook to the beach or to the sea enabling our guests to enjoy the view both in winter and in summer.
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When passing the entrance threshold a new background showing an informal way to perform the task of reception emerges.
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In fact the guest is welcomed by a metropolitan living room made up of snow white couches having highly coloured rigid disks and of smooth walls which look so sinuous that resemble a theatre stage curtain fabric which has just been raised. There is no traditional reception desk, the welcoming entrance hall becomes a meeting place where people socialize, talk, display and show off. Snow white surfaces an bewitching volumetries together with piercing colours strokes characterize the visual area. All the feature share the intention of expressing contemporaneity, beauty and new contents. The large hall leading to the sinuous external swimming pool is vibrant with light thanks to the linear blue l.e.d’s which make the white couches seem to float being suspended on the floor which is made up of large size glossy porcelained gres tiles. The mirror walls surrounding the bar cover nearly 80% of the perimeter of the ground floor. They are silk screened with random dizzying concentric handsketched circles, and a sparkling explosion of bubbles which dilate the space. The theatrical celing narrow beam light lights are oriented by the lamps of a futuristic spaceship enhancing the furnishing, the walls and the different materials.
There is no traditional reception desk, the welcoming entrance hall becomes a meeting place where people socialize, talk, display and show off.
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Image: The guest is welcomed by a metropolitan living room made up of snow white couches having highly coloured rigid disks and of smooth walls which look so sinuous that resemble a theatre stage curtain fabric which has just been raised.
Image: We asked designers to plan rooms having all different shapes and not resembling parallepipeds but rather the irregular spaces of luxurios mansion while being at the same time domestic as a cosy house.
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Image: The mirror walls surrounding the bar cover nearly 80% of the perimeter of the ground floor. They are silk screened with random dizzying concentric handsketched circles, and a sparkling explosion of bubbles which dilate the space.
Image: Snow white surfaces an bewitching volumetries together with piercing colours strokes characterize the visual area.
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The i - SUITE plan, aims at providing our guests with a place different from the conventional hotels, and most Rimini Hotels.
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Image: We designed our rooms as much as 40, 50 and even 70 square meters in order to give our guests a great sense of freedom, all the room overlook to the beach or to the sea enabling our guests to enjoy the view both in winter and in summer.
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Tall sinuous bright acid green trees having long branches which seem to float into the space creating kaleidoscopic setting leaving a unique, deep memory involving the guests in an all senses experience by means of reflections and evocative effects on the mirror surface together with the changeable projections on the wavy walls. Overall Area in square metres: 5500. The external area amounts to 1200 square metres, the internal area amounts to 4300 square metres (six floors +ground floor + basement) 54 suites 1 Hall 1 Restaurant “i-FAME” (with garden) 2 Bars (“street bar” – located near the sea; “i-BAR” – located inside) 1 Wellness center “i-FEEL GOOD” 1 Covered and heated swimming pool “i-POOL” 1 Covered parking “i-PARKING” DETAILS: Ground floor Restaurant: 190 square metres Hall and bar: 250 square metres Suites over 5 floors Number of suites per floor: 11 (apart from 5th floor which has 10 suites) Area in square metres per floor: 545 5th floor super suite area in square metres: 70 Total area of the suites floors in square metres (corridors included ): 2800 6th floor– wellness center spa area in square metres: 300 3 Treatment cabins 1 Relax room equipped with fireplace 1 90° Sauna 1 50° Sauna 1 Turkish bath 1 Thalassotherapy bath 1 Heated swimming pool with hydromassage and waterfalls 1 Tanning lamp 1 Relax terrace equipped with external fireplace 1 Fitness area 1 Sensory way with showers 1 Ice machine 2 Bathrooms Basement Garage area in square metres: 1000. Number of car parking places 54
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