Esrawe Studio

Tori Tori Altavista

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

TORI TORI ALTAVISTA

Esrawe Studio

ARCHITECTS
Esrawe Studio

TEAM HÉCTOR ESRAWE
Jan Müller, Rodrigo López, Israel Dorantes

MANUFACTURERS
Vescom, Bolyü, Casa Lux, Casa Planas, Disemo, Maderas Finas, Quadratto

EAM MICHEL ROJKIND
Salvador Cortéz, Jorge Cesár Gonzalez, Victor Manuel Velazquez, Cynthia Ponce, Julieta Inclán, Pablo Herrera, Fernanda Casar, Andrea León, Beatriz Zavala, Lorena Garcia Cordero-Sasía, Dinorah Martínez Schulte

CLIENT
Private

PROGRAM
Japanese Restaurant

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jaime Navarro

AREA 
458

YEAR
2014

 LOCATION
Altavista 147, San Ángel Inn, Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico

CATEGORY
Ciudad De México, Mexico

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

Text description provided by the architects.

As a marketing strategy, each Tori Tori restaurant has a unique expression.

After participating in the design of Tori Tori Temistocles, once again Héctor Esrawe and Michel Rojkind were invited to collaborate in the development of the project for the new branch restaurant at the south of Mexico City.

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

The main influences for this project are based on the expression of brutalist architecture, as well as historic architecture carve and mountains.

Located inside a commercial plaza in the San Angel neighborhood, the space consists of two levels: the first being a narrow interior that connects through a stairway with the second level and the green areas of its terrace.

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

The sensation when entering the space is conditioned by a meticulous game of height variations in the marble ceiling.

This provokes a sense of compression and continuity, similar to accessing a cave.

The marble ceiling descends until it almost reaches the floor in order to receive the spiral staircase that connects the ground floor with the terrace.

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

To the right side there is a sushi bar that allows the user to see the chef’s hands when preparing the sushi through the reflective qualities of the high polished brass ceiling. On the other side lies a continuous seat with an art piece of artist Marco Rountree on the wall.

The upper floor is surrounded by green areas; the sensation is completely open and extroverted, enabling the user to observe the treetops of neighboring houses, a characteristic trait of the neighborhood.

Nonetheless, the memory of the previous experience is mirrored through the ground level changes covered in the same materiality of the preceding marble space.

Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro


Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro
Tori Tori Altavista
© Jaime Navarro

Esrawe Studio
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