Tori Tori Restaurant

Now, that I have mention that I have commenced a search to explore Mexican Architects work;  accidentally, today, I was looking through my emails, and from a spam that I had recieved, I found a beautiful building meant to be Japanese restaurant in Mexico City architect Michel Rojkind and industrial designer  Hector Esrawe

Michel Rojkind is a Mexican architect and former musician of Russian-Mexican descent From 1987 to 1999, Rojkind was a drummer in Aleks Syntek's band La Gente Normal and studied architecture in Mexico City's Universidad Iberoamericana.After working independently for several years, he established Adria+Broid+Rojkind (1998-2002) with Isaac Broid and Miquel Adria. His work seeks new directions in architectural practice by evoking common identities through the exploration of uncharted geometries that address questions of space, function, technology, materials, structure, and construction methods related directly to geography, climate and local urban experiences. In 2002, he established Rojkind Arquitectos, an independent firm recognized as "one of the best ten Design Vanguard firms" by Architectural Record in 2005.
http://www.exmicro.mistral.co.uk/ACUE_www/ACU/biographies.html

 Hector Esrawe Is a Mexican Industrial Designer by the Universidad Iberoamericana(1992), began his career as and independent designer under the Esrawe Studio firm. Founder and current member of the Nel Collective, he was also an Industrial Designer professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana(1998 to 2002), founder and former Directir if the Industrial Design Bachelor Program at Centro de Diseño, Cine y Television from 2003 to 2005.He is also a member of the editorial board of Arquine Magazine. Among his designs are arts and crafts products and interiorism.
Winner of the Best of the Year Awards 2011 for Tori Tori restaurant in collaboration with Rojkind Arquitectos, winner of the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (2010) in the Interior design spaces category for ''Cielito Querido Café'', special mention at the Design Magazine's ''Best of the Year Awards'' for Cielito Querido Café,  and Diseño Magazine's  Excellence Award in 2010, Quorum Award winner and recognized for 15 years of excellence by IIDA México, silver medal winner at the Bienal de Diseño for LAR Headquarters Project (Mexico City 2008).

http://www.esrawe.com/

PROYECTO RESTAURANTE TORI TORI

Ubicación: México D.F.

Construcción: 629 m2

Programa: Restaurante Japonés

Fecha de diseño: 2008

Fecha de terminación: 2010

CRÉDITOS

Proyecto arquitectónico: rojkind arquitectos [Michel Rojkind] + ESRAWE Studio [Héctor Esrawe]

rojkind arquitectos

Principal a cargo: Michel Rojkind

Equipo: Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke Jaber, Enrique F. de la Barrera

ESRAWE Studio

Principal a cargo: Héctor Esrawe

Equipo: Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho

Consultaría de fachada: [ESTUDIOS 3D] Kokkugia [Roland Snooks, Robert Stuart-Smith]

Ingeniería de fachada: GRUPO MAS [Ing. Eduardo Flores]

Construcción: ZDA desarrollo + arquitectura [Yuri Zagorin]

Diseño de iluminación: luz en arquitectura [Arq. Kai Diederichsen]

Proyecto de audio y video: NTX New Technology Experience

Diseño de paisaje: entorno taller de paisaje

Ingeniería estructural: Ing. Juan Felipe Heredia

Proyecto de instalaciones: QUANTUM Diseño

Mobiliario: ESRAWE Studio

Cocina: San-Son

Visualización: © Glessner Group

Visualización interior: ESRAWE Studio

Artista invitado: Fotógrafo Guido Torres

Mexican Architects

I have decided what my project is going to be! 

Because I am going to be an architect :), I must find what is going to be “MY STYLE”... So, my new mission is to begin a data base of different architects' work. My focus will be Mexican architects, in order to engage my culture, blend architecture with Mexicans artistic and structural influences. 

I high goal to reach will be to become a Frida Kahlo... I wish...  but of course, with a Giovanna Gallardo spice, oh yeah... crazy Mexican living in the US. <3 

To start I will have Posts of each individual architect. 

The few Mexican architects that I have were recommended by my beautiful aunt Tita Millan, my art teacher. The recommendations were:

Luis Barragan (1960)

Ricardo Legorreta

Elias Rizo

Agustín Hernandez




1.  Luis Barragan -->  http://www.barragan-foundation.org , http://designmuseum.org/design/luis-barragan
2. Ricardo Legorreta --> http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/000203/legorreta.shtml  
3. Elias Rizo Arquitectos --> http://www.mexican-architects.com/en/elias-rizo/es/
4. Agustín Hernandez --> http://moleskinearquitectonico.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-obra-de-agustin-hernandez-mexico.html

ooH La La Artistas Mexicanos y del Mundo.

       En la búsqueda por Arquitectos Mexicanos, encontré una pagina web, El Poder de la Palabra, que sirve como base de datos compuesta de varios escritores, artistas y músicos de diferentes países.


La descripción dice:
El Poder de la Palabra es una web dedicada a la prosa poética. En ella encontrará fragmentos de textos literarios, así como la biografía e imágenes de sus autores. Para acompañarle en la lectura podrá ver también... obras de arte, imágenes de edificios, composiciones clásicas, bandas sonoras y una selección de los más importantes premios literarios, artísticos y culturales.


Me parececio una gran oportunidad para explorar los trabajos de artistas mexicanos, entre otros. 
http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=M%E9xico


Autocad free trial Link:
http://usa.autodesk.com/autocad-architecture/trial/

Dreams

                                                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29YR5-t3gg 
  
 As one of my favorite songs by Cat Stevens, Father and Son, says "look at everything you got. For you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not"... its really a nice song, and now I find myself in the transition between high school years and the adult world, wanting to have projects of my own, earn money, work hard, learn a lot... but I find myself trapped and without a path to follow. I really enjoyed this semester in college and doing architectural drawings, but I have no special activity other than homework. I got in the college tennis team for a while until my sister confessed she didn't enjoy it as much as I did and we stopped going, we share car... 

I see everyone has an activity of their own, my sister is earning good money doing photo shoots, I'm very proud of her. I wish I could find something I could do without being hired... It sucks living in the United States and having to wait for your Social Security to arrive... even after having applied almost 2 years ago, everyone that has been transferred here because of their jobs, or parents job, and are PROMISED to get a social security and have to wait years to get it ( really years... I know someone that has lived here for more than seven years and still hasn't received the residency)  It really ruins your life... it is like we are no one, we have no rights... of course we pay taxes but we cant vote, cant apply for scholarships, cant work legally... it is really outrageous ... I have good grades, I worked for a good GPA, got more than 240 service hours, was the vice-president of the Interior Design Club at Cypress Bay, the secretary of the Art Honor Society also at Cyrpress Bay High School... member of the Spanish Club and the Business Club and all my efforts for nothing... I ended up going to Broward College because all the universities cost a lot, that even professors say that without scholarships its just too much to pay for.

But oh well, I want that social security or to just get out of this country... The only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't want to leave  my boyfriend I really think I found the right person for me, and of course money... 

Acknowledging my current situation I have to find SOMETHING I can do to make my transition to the adult world the MOST enriching possible. I need high aiming goals, I need a hobby! I need to go back into the life style that gave me freedom to express myself artistically and socially... I need a plan.

Madrid-Barajas and Nuclear engineering

Since my boyfriend's parents know I am beginning to study architecture, they have begun to share interesting contemporary pieces of architecture they encounter in their trips to Europe. One of the buildings they say reminded them of me was the Madrid-Barajas airport (obviously in Madrid, Spain). It is a 
a little bit about the airport from Wikipedia:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid-Barajas_Airport

"Madrid-Barajas is the main international airport serving Madrid in Spain. In 2010, over 49.8 million passengers used Madrid-Barajas,^[1]making it the country's largest and busiest airport, and in 2009 it was the world's 11th busiest airport^[4] and Europe's fourth busiest airport. It opened in 1928, and has grown to be one of the most important aviation centres of Europe. Located within the city limits of Madrid, just 9 km (5.6 mi) from the city's financial district and 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's historic centre. The airport name derives from the adjacent district ofBarajas, which has its own metro station on the same rail line serving the airport." 

From what i have looked at the pictures on google looks like terminal four is the most interesting ."Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers" 
The interior is very interesting and playful, very colorful and wavy. Here are some pictures:

terminal 4 lobby

Terminal 4 exterior

Terminal 3

Terminal 2

Terminal 1

ARC Drawing

Now that my first semester has ended, I have the time to post a compilation on my drawings I did through-out the semester in my Architectural Drawing class.

I am not posting all the work I did for the class but some of my favorites, some are done on vellum with pencils and others are on millar using ink, the images are pictures of papers 36''x24''

Everything was done by hand using a drafting table and triangles, I used no stencils.

I had a lot of fun and got to know my pencils and their line weights, I also learned 1 & 2 perspective drawings using a measuring grid that consists of a horizon line and a vanishing point, and of course I learned how to use the architectural lettering. 

Here is the result:

(not the final draft) used ink and wax to create the marble 

Experimenting Line Weights

Now in my architecture drawing class we’ve been experimenting different line weight meaning we had to get a vellum size 24x36 and sketch straight lines horizontally (36’) which had to be separated by 1/8 of an inch EACH!    I used my pencil leads 4H, 2H, F, H, HB, and 3B; the assignment was to sketch 5 straight continuous lines horizontally and do the sixth (with the same lead) a dotted line until you filled your page. Then when all the class was relieved that we were almost done fessor said we had to do the same thing but now vertically using our triangles.

It was tedious.  The worst part is that I heard the professor say we were going to finish the assignment in class… turned out we had to finish during the weekend… I was doomed.

I hurried and tried to finish during class, and the professor was already giving another assignment which was our first floor plan EVER that we were going to sketch. J

I didn’t finish I got a B-  in the line weight assignment… Sucks, because it means my work was good and deserved better but because it was incomplete he took down a letter grade. 

Architecture Drawing Class #2

The classes have been great :)

The second class we did another free handed sketch focusing on space. The professor had us push back our chairs and focus on the space under our desks. The product of the sketch would be black spaces between the solid objects. It was very interesting because I wasn’t supposed to draw any lines that would define the object as a whole, no details, just the space. The type of sketch is called a “negative space sketch.”

For my surprise the professor got my sketch and used it as an example of how to do the project correctly! I was so happy and proud. J

But I hadn’t finished the sketch completely (like I found some pictures online), but still it was good, the problem was that for the 9 sketches that the professor assigned for  the weekend I did the same as my successful sketch in class… I’ll take pictures and post them…

By the way we had to use India Ink for the sketches! Using a tiny brush!

But for now I’ll leave the pictures of the good negative space sketches I found online:

Architecture Orientation

Monday 29, today is the orientation from 6:00 to 7:00 (right after my sketching class)


It was cool I won a Autocad Book because I answered a question at the end of the presentation. 
The orientation covered an overall view of the architecture career and the different paths one can choose to take, also an introduction to all the staff that we will be seeing, including several architecture professors and the student community that runs the AIAS, that will be hosting several events like tours, conferences and workshops for the architecture students... members and non-members :)


To join the AIAS you pay a fee and get discounts for architecture materials ....oooo ',:O

AIAS

Yesterday, Monday august 22, I had my first architectural drawing class. It was super fun, we did blind contour sketching. The professor was teaching us about lines and to develop hand-eye communication, because apparently we couldn’t look at what we were sketching! The point of the activity was to fix your eyes on the object you were drawing and without separating your pencil from the paper (or looking at your paper) you and sketch a figure with depth. It was extremely relaxing.

At first we sketch a lose piece of paper that we wrinkled, then I sketched my hand AND THEN… WE SKETCHED OUR PARTNERS! (That we didn’t know yet ...) THAT… was extremely funny. The professor had us starring at a person that had to be staring at us back! PLUS we couldn’t move cause the other person was sketching us! Or at least trying to! J  

Very, very fun, I will try to upload the sketches so you can laugh for a while. I learned about different types of lines and pencils width and softness. I used 5 pencils: 2H, H, F, 3B, 6B (listed from harder and thinner point to thicker and softer point)

Now I’ll tell you about my adventure in which I had to drive by myself from Davie road, BC Central Campus, all the way to Oakland Park Way then go down on the N Federal Highway to a store called Utrecht (not the city in Netherlands but an art store here in FL J ) … AND THEN SOUTH TO Las Olas Blvd to BC Downtown Campus!

I have to say that I did a good job in not getting lost J I made it to the store and 30 min early to class. Mission accomplished J

BUT NOW…

I had 30 min to waste … so I was talking to Daniel and remembered about the architecture club that BC offered… so I looked for the professor that was in charge of the club but he was nowhere to be found… until I went in my class and HELLO! The professor in charge of the club was in MY CLASS! What? He was there to tell us about the club AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) , it sounded very cool because it offers contacts for future jobs or internships, and it tells you about different university programs and they help you transfer with ease to a university.
https://www.aias.org/custom/memberapp.asp?id=310

          BUT it costs $60 a year, let’s see what my parents say…

TREE HOUSES

OH yeah ...
my love... my adoration... tree houses :) .... ahhhhhhh
Today I decided it had been long ago since I used Stumble Upon, so... I first click! and it took me to a really nice webpage about design ---> www.dornob.com
SO ...First thing I see was an architecture click on which opened several options for architecture you might be interest on. The options are: addisions , contemporary, conversions, green homes, houseboats, offbeat, portable, prefab, TREE HOUSES, ultra modern , and urban design.
Let me just say that... THOSE ARE AWSOME OPTIONS°! :)

This is one of the tree houses I liked , please notice the detail of the tiles in every stair!

Dizzying Dome: High-Up Tree Home with Transparent Floors

The attempt of a 3Dlooking chair...

The first attemt of sketching a 3d looking chair. I´m not gonna lie, it was really fun sketching this, because it is a battle of lines. BUT , I didn´t do a great job with it :p , I will try again  some time soon ( and find a chair with a better design than this one... or maybe design one myself ;) )

A Couple of Movies Later...

Those are not my toes!

Oh vacation time… all chill and time to go to the movies A LOT! ... and the beach of course. I´ve been wanting to blog, but then again I´ve been wanting to get an internship in the field of architecture of interior design BUT I have no idea where to start looking ( definitely something I´m going to blog the “how to” of getting an internship when I find out myself haha)… meanwhile I must start learning about measurement of space and buildings.

Cool, so this Tuesday I´m going to be traveling to Cancun with Daniel J gonna show him around Cancun and Playa del Carmen with all my Mexican friends. Oh yeah.

One of my very good friends in Cancun wants to be an architect and he is already working for his dad, so I should talk to him about what he does and how he sees the people in the field he works with. He is 19 J but hey he´s already working better ask him.

Now that I spilled my beans haha jk, now that I talked about me and my future actions… I leave you with a house I found:

Singapore’s dream home designed by Guz Architects.

http://www.homedsgn.com/2011/03/23/tangga-house-by-guz-architects/

One day at the Library

Sitting at the Library across the street from my highschool, Cypress Bay, I realize that I have only 8 min remaining in my computer session, and only 2 days of high school. No more homework or assignments, no more crowded hallways, no more waking up at 6:30 am to go to school. Now I'm going to graduate... Now I'm going to move on to another seccion in the story of my life. I look back at all I have acomplished and all the new faces I met and lost. Im proud and happy and ready for what is yet to come. I will continue with my blogs so I can continue to see the infinite possibilities of what I can create and what has been created.
My boyfriend Daniel and I, will be going to Cancun for my prom and of course I will introduce him to the excitement and beauty of my beloved homeland :) (and to party legaly!! yeeesssss!!!!) anyway... haha
I'll leave this as a reminder for me, because I know no one who reads my blogs...
The mind is super powerful, you can achieve whatever you set your mind for, AND Above all Things You Shall be Glad and Young.


ps: I want to follow blogs and the news.
start here -> http://the-unique-people.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-03T07%3A41%3A00-07%3A00

Tomorrow TOMORROW!

TOOOOOOOOMOOOOORRRRRRROW !!!! is my final WISE presentation where I will present all my "experience" during this semester of blogging and researching about architecture... oh yeah ...
Some people that I wanted them to go aren´t going to be able to go , but my Danielito is going haha
I KNOW the presentation is going to be fine, awesome and very long hahahaha
I´m ready bring it on!
reaadyy...
oh yess

When finally luck turned

I was looking through Facebook today, because I just found out that I´m going to go to Cancun for my prom over there, with the middle and high school class I’ve been with since 6^th grade J ( I really don’t know why I hadn’t planned this before… that’s my true class that knows me) So I was looking for flight tickets and I had to let my friend, Natalia,  know that she will be receiving me(and maybe Daniel!) on July!  -She had offered to take us in before she went back to Cancun this past weekend.--  The point is… that I was checking Facebook and I saw that Natalia fixed her memory card and posted all the pics from Orlando!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy J

Here are some pictures!!!! wuhuu

Happily on our way to Orlando

i-4 , where we pulled over for 2 hours...

Ready to enjoy our day at the park :)

At the Simson´s ride