Rojkind's Latest Projects

2000, Mexico City, Mexico National Educational Videotheque 1st Prize, Invited Competition [Built]

2001-2002, Mexico City, Mexico Tlaxcala 190 Apartment Building [Built]

2001, Mexico City, Mexico Mp3 Apartment Residential [Built]

2002, Mexico City, Mexico F2 House Residential [Built]

2003, Puebla, Mexico Cholula Student Housing Residential [Project]

2003, Baja California, Mexico MD House Residential [Built]

2004, Mexico City, Mexico Mazaryk Master Plan Urban Master Plan [Project]

2004, Michoacan, Mexico IMSS Biomedical Research Center Public [Project]

2004, Madrid, Spain Arco 2005 Mexican Pavillion Invited Competition [Project]

2004, Mexico City, Mexico Boska Bar Bar & Restaurant [Built]

2004, Mexico City, Mexico Falcon Headquarters Office [Built]

2005, Monterrey, Mexico Steel Museum Invited Competition [Project]

2005, Puebla, Mexico UDLA, New Bussiness School Invited Competition [Project]

2005, Oaxaca, Mexico Oaxaca Hotel 1st Prize, Invited Competition [Project]

2005, Germany Vitra Exhibition Open House Intelligent Living Residential Invited Competition [Project]

2002, Mexico City, Mexico Knova Exhibition and Sales Center [Settled]

2002, State of Mexico PR34 House Residential [Built]

2005, Cancun, Mexico Villas Takul Residential, Invited Competition [Project]

2005, Toronto, Canada Earth + Mark Tower, Phase 1 Mixed-use High-rise, Finalist, Open Competition

2005, Mexico City, Mexico Hex Tower Mixed-use Tower, Invited Competition [Project]

2007, Mexico City, Mexico Liverpool Contemporary City Master Plan, Invited Competition [Project]

2006, Mexico City, Mexico Hotel Del Angel Renovation [Built]

2007, Mexico City, Mexico Philips Pavilion Commercial [Built]

2006, Kuwait, Kuwait Kuwait Cultural And Educational Center Cultural and Educational Center, Invited Competition [Project]

2007, Singapur Singapur Marina South Hospitality, Invited Competition [Project]

2006, Toronto, Canada Earth + Mark Tower, Phase, 2 Mixed-use High-Rise, Open Competition Finalist,

2007, Beijing, China 2008 olympic China Pavillion Ephemeral Pavillion [Project]

2007, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Marina Dubai Hospitality, Invited Competition [Project]

2008, China Guiyang, China Office Tower [Project]

2007, State of Mexico, Mexico Nestle Chocolate Museum Cultural and Educational [Built]

2008, Mexico City, Mexico Santa Fe Tower Mixed-use Mid-Rise Invited Competition [Project]

2008, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Code Horizon Dubai Hospitality,Invited Competition [Project]

2008, Monterrey, Mexico Pulse Tower Mixed-use High-R ise [Project]

2008, Ordos, Mongolia Ordos 100, Gimme Shelter Residential [Ongoing]

2008, Queretaro, Mexico Nestle Application Group Research Center [Built]

2009, Mexico City, Mexico Bicentennial Arch Competition Invited Competition [Settled]

2009, Mexico City, Mexico Tori Tori Hospitality-Restaurant [Built]

2009, Mexico City, Mexico R432 Mixed-Use High-Rise [Project]

2010, Taiwan Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center Cultural Competition [Project]

2008, State of Mexico, Mexico Tamayo Museum Atizapan Extension Cultural, Invited Competition [Project]

2009, Monterrey, Mexico High Park Residential,Mixed-Use Building [Under Construction 2013]

2009, Shanghai, China Mexican Pavillion in Shanghai 2010 Culture Competition [Project]

2010, Venice, Italy Detour Mapping Contemporary Venice Exhibition, 12th Venice Biennale

2010, Mexico City, Mexico National Archive Museum “Lecumberri” Cultural, Honorable Mention, Competition [Settled]

2011, Mexico City, Mexico insurgentes master plan Master Plan [Project]

2011, Mexico City, Mexico “Cineteca Nacional del Siglo XXI” Cultural, Under Construction (2012)

2011, Mexico City, Mexico Liverpool interlomas department store Retail, [Built ]

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Tori Tori Restaurant Design Date: 2009 Client: Privare

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Construction: 629 m2 Program: Japanese Restaurant Country: Mexico City: Mexico City Status: Built

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 rojkind arquitectos and Esrawe Studio teamed up to make it happen.

They wanted to give enough strength to the new program they proposed to transform the space inside out.

Taking advantage of the plot’s conditions, the parking space was left where it was, 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.’

Although the client’s requirements were oriented towards a Japanese interpretation, 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 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 interior use.

‘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.

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.

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.

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R432

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Construction: 53, 322 m2 Program: Mixed Use High-Rise Country: Mexico

Design Date: 2009

City: Mexico City

Client: Grupo Elipse

Status: Under Construction

Rojkind Arquitectos getting ready to break ground for a new High-Rise in Mexico City´s prestigious Reforma Avenue.

Reforma Avenue has been one of Mexico City’s main avenues since the second half of the 19th century, and is one of the most important avenues and city hallmarks due to its symbolic value and urban quality.

R432, on Reforma Avenue, has achieved the best construction conditions for its type of building. It is a project that fully embraces its urban condition. The building opens up to the street, and the street, fully guaranteeing safety, comfort and privacy enters into the building.

By uniting 12 lots of land we have a single lot stretching from Reforma Avenue, to Tokio Street, opening up the possibility of turning Manchester Street into a pedestrian walkway, giving the side facade a singular urban quality.

Of the 52 floors of R432, 3 are reserved for commerce and luxurious restaurants, offering their services to the occupants living on the higher levels of the tower while connecting them with the city, rich with experiences of an urban environment. In total, 7 floors will be dedicated to offices and parking and 28 for residences. The 5 basements of the tower will be reserved for residence parking.

There will also be floors dedicated to technical operations as well as recreation and entertainment of the inhabitants, including a gym, play area, swimming pool, massage area and jogging track.

The top 9 levels of the tower will host the Buddha Bar Hotel, which promises to be one of the city’s most enviable locations, enriching the lifestyle of the tower’s inhabitants.

This skyscraper doesn’t just multiply the base area by its number of floors; it also intensifies the potential for the use of the building.

The greatest challenge is not just to pile one floor on top of the other, but rather to imply them with one another, or better yet, to complicate them into each other.

The tower is divided into blocks or zones, that are identified by a theme or rather by an ambiance based on Gaston Bachelard’s Imagination of Matter; each of them implying colors, textures, smells and sounds. Starting from the ground up; Earth, Stone, Metal, Crystal, Water, Rain, Seeds, Plants, and Fire.

Starting from the basic 70 square meter unit that is generated by the structure of the tower, the housing elements can be made by combining two, three or more of these units; horizontally, vertically or in a combination of both, allowing for different spatial and functional configurations.

Your home can occupy several levels and enjoy different views, creating a unique combination that will set it apart from the rest.

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High Park Design Date: 2009 Client: Orange Investments.

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Construction: 13,000 m2 Program: Mixed Use Building Country: Mexico City: Monterrey Status: Under Construction

The ground and first floors of High Park will accommodate shops with eight storeys of apartments stepping backwards and forwards above.

The setbacks will create both sheltered and open terraces for residents with views towards the mountains. Each of the 32 apartment interiors have been designed by one of six different local designers, creating a varied layout for each one.

A car park will be located across four storeys below ground.

High Park is located on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico. Surrounded by the Majestic Sierra Madre Oriental Range.

The project is designed to take full advantage of its geographic location and to help mitigate the extreme climatic conditions.

High Park by Rojkind Arquitectos High Park is located on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico. Surrounded by the Majestic Sierra Madre Oriental Range.

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“Cineteca Nacional del Siglo XXI”

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Construction: 20,188 m2 Program: Cultural Country: Mexico

Design Date: 2011

City: Mexico City

Client: CONACULTA - CINETECA NACIONAL

Status: Under Construction

The National Council for Culture and the Arts has announced that the “Cineteca Nacional del Siglo XXI” project has been awarded to Rojkind Arquitectos.

“To intervene and expand the National Film Archive involves understanding a substantial change in film, as suggested in the term “moving pictures”.Today, images move not only on a screen, the screens move with us:they go where we go, and the movies, have gone from being a gathering space for the masses, to also reaching us wherever we might be.

The new National Film Archive and Film Institute must understand this condition, both to ensure and protect the wealth of our country’s moving pictures as well as those of the rest of the world and to make them accessible, in all their various forms, to the general public.

A place which will have movies, but which will also offer other recreational spaces, taking advantage of the latest technologies.

Common spaces and spaces to promote communication. The idea is in part to remove film from its classic exhibition site: movies in the park, in the café, in the square, to transform those spaces to become more than just services related to the experience of the movies, but rather to become part of the experience itself: the park itself as a movie, or the café, or the square.

In this way, the National Film Archive becomes a space of physical and virtual connections between media and people. An interface with two key elements: the continuous ground that connects the different elements that make up the National Film Archive and the roof, that connects them in its own way.- Alejandro Hernández

The project includes the total renovation of the complex, originally built as the “Composer’s Square” in 1984 by Manuel Rocha and transformed on several occasions since becoming the Nation’s Film Archive and Film Institute in 1974.

In addition to the existing screening rooms, the complex currently has five archive vaults, four of them housing a collection of more than 15,000 film classics of world cinema in 35 and 15 mm formats.

The fifth vault houses iconographic material, including posters, photographs, slides, negatives and video. The surface of vaults will increase from 1500 to over 2200 square meters, in order to house 50 000 more reels of film. The space for the gallery and the digital restoration lab will have a surface area of 500 square meters and the offices once reorganized, will be reduced from 1900 to 1800 meters.

The new project will add four new screening rooms, for a total of 1000 extra seats, in addition to renewing the existing screening rooms whose total capacity will be increased from 2050 to 3050 seats. A six-level above grade parking will be built with a capacity for 528 cars, compared to the current 422. This will free up 70% of the area now occupied by parking. That space, besides allowing for the construction of the new screening rooms, will allow for an outdoor amphitheatre with a capacity for 700 spectators, a public park and a central public plaza.

In total, the National Film Archives will increase its built area from 20,000 to almost 29,000 square meters, of which 7,000 are destined to public spaces. The purpose is to generate a new comprehensive cinematic experience and more options in terms of programming.

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Liverpool Interlomas

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Construction: 18, 000 m2 Program: Retail Country: Mexico

Design Date: 2011

City: Mexico City

Client: Liverpool

Status: Built

Understanding the new role shopping centers play in today’s society, in which they have become a magnet for social encounters and even cultural exchanges, Rojkind Arquitectos was commissioned to design an 18,000m2 façade for the new department store as part of a new era in the company’s pursuit for re-branding itself.

Liverpool department stores, with a 164-year-old history, have for the most part always been one of the main anchor stores for large shopping centers in Mexico. Its strategic location plays an important role in the immediate urban context.

Located in the northern “car dependent” suburb of Interlomas on the outskirts of Mexico City, this relatively new suburb is characterized by a lack of open public space and a myriad of roads on which pedestrians are not welcomed.

The new facade responds to a fast pace of the everyday life in this isolated suburb, sitting in the middle of a very congested intersection of highways and overpasses, which give it a futuristic “Blade Runner-like” feel. With an existing circular footprint, the customization process of fabricating directly from 3D models drove the ideas behind the façade design intent. Speed became a very important factor in the way the project is experienced.

Flexibility, fluidity and dynamism drove the design process.

The double-layered façade shelters the store and it’s users from its chaotic environment. It’s sleek stainless steel machine-like exterior, is intended to evolve in a very fluid way as the intense sun bathes it throughout the day. It’s a contradiction to the grit and chaos of its surroundings; a juxtaposition that becomes a new reference for this part of the city. At night the hollow cavity between the layers of the façade is engulfed in light that subtly escapes through the fine reliefs formed at the folds in the skin.

The façade transforms at night from its solid monochromatic appearance during the day to a dynamic form accented by light.

As part of this new endeavor by the client, multiple design firms were selected to participate in the various parts of the project: the interiors were done by FRCH, the rooftop garden by Thomas Balsley and the gourmet space by JHP. In the initial workshops sessions, it became clear that the main central interior space needed to reflect the dynamic nature of the exterior so the client retained Rojkind Arquitectos to design this space as well.

As the visitor enters, they are met by a three-story atrium full of movement and filtered daylight that encourages the visitor to move throughout the department store.

The curved backlit balconies are intended to be a reminder of the fluidity of the exterior façade but at a more human scale as opposed to the urban scale of the exterior façade. This play between the inside and outside is intended to create a sense of discovery for the user that culminates at the roof garden.The roof terrace contains a park-like setting that can be enjoyed not only by the store visitors but also by the surrounding local community, thus enhancing the social role that the department store will play.

The complexity of the project combined with a very tight schedule and a difficult urban site condition, required the combination of a highly skilled design team and collaborators in which the interconnectivity and digital design tools have radically transformed the way we design and construct buildings today.

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PORTAL OF AWARNESS

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Construction: 42 m2 Program: Cultural Country: Mexico

Design Date: 2012

City: Mexico City

Client: Nescafe

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This portal, conceived through spatial design, activated by the city dwellers and the everyday stimuli of Mexico City’s life, becomes a new public piece in one of the city’s most important avenues, Paseo de la Reforma.

Nescafé comissioned 8 artists(Francisco Serrano, Mario Schjetnan, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta, Fernanda Canales, Manuel Cervantes, Alejandro Quintanilla and Alejandro Castro) to develop specific installations with the basic requirement of utilizing a maximum of 1500 metal coffee mugs.

Combining a common every day life object, a mug, with a basic common architectural construction material, rebar, the idea of a portal takes place. The rebar is used as the primary structure for the cups, which are then mechanically attached to each intersection of the steel mesh.

Combining 41 main arches, ranging in lenght from 10 to 12 meters, with two additional layers of 56 diagonals each, the piece is interwoven to create 1497 nodes for the cups.

The final shape of the portal, along with the different colors of the mugs selected, reinforce the sense of movement of the piece, which plays a key role in the concept of the project.

The steel planters anchor the structure and allow for the vines to grow in between the rebar, with the idea that in time it will cover the entire structure in a green foliage from the outside, while the inside displays the gradient of the mug’s chromatics.

The play of the shadow’s patterns casted on the sidewalk add an extra layer that shifts throughout the day.

This installation is intended to be in place during the winter months, providing a space of expression and interaction in the public realm.

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TRANSFORMADORA CIEL

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Construction: 500 m2 Program: Co-Working space Country: Mexico

Design Date: 2012

City: Mexico City

rojkind arquitectos + AGENT

Status: Built

As part of an ongoing collaboration with The CocaCola Company, Rojkind Arquitectos together with AGENT worked on the design of Foro Ciel, the physical space which will house the content for the Transformadora Ciel programs.

Foro Ciel emerges as the vivid example of a positive transformation as its main premise. Having an unused space as a starting point (flat roof and helipad) and transforming it into a productive co-working center, surrounded by green areas, the space not only achieves functionality but also revives a corner of the city.

The site, reinvented with recycled materials and a series of clean technologies, acquires a green roof whose vegetation does not require irrigation from the grid since a rain water collecting system was installed.

Regarding the environmental impact, we took into account various aspects during design and construction to minimize environmental damage and even have a positive impact. For example, the aesthetic “industrial” project is intended to leave many elements (facilities, pipelines, etc.) So apparent to avoid using extra materials finishes.

The customized furniture, includes interchangeable modules that activate a flexible configuration interior where different groups are able to work in various topics and re-arrange the layout as their work flow requires to.

The shapes within the space, as well the curved windows are reminiscent of Ciel’s “double droplep” logotype and a representation of the dynamic work space it holds.

- Natural and LED-based lighting - Water-based paint for structural elements - Powder coated paint for most furniture pieces.

- The majority of furniture pieces are locallyproduced.

- Green roof including an orchad with rain water collection system.

- Use of recycled materials and re-utilization of existing structural elements from the helipad.

- Use of low impact materials that contribute to LEED certification - Solar panels which contribute to most of the electrical requirements of the space.

- Exposed installations to eliminate the need of unnecessar y finishes.

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