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Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch B.Arch \\ Universidad Iberoamericana México M.DesR \\ SCI-Arc Los Angeles

scortezh@yahoo.com @salvador.ch M +52 (55) 1012 1494

CV

B.Arch - Universidad Iberoamericana México M.Design Research - SCI-Arc Los Angeles

Arq. Salvador Francisco

Cortéz

Hultsch

scortezh@yahoo.com +52 (55) 1012 1494 @salvador.ch

Education Estudios

Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México 2007-2012 Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism Licenciatura en Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Reference Referencias

Arq. Guillermo Suarez A.A.A. Partner gsuarez@almazanarquitectos.com

Michel Rojkind

Rojkind Arquitectos Founding Partner michel@rojkindarquitectos.com

Arq. Paola Morales Universidad Anahuac Studio Coordinator paola.moraleso@anahuac.mx

Master in Design Research Maestría en Investigación y Diseño

Experiencia Profesional Professional Work

Southern California Institute of Architecture / SCI-Arc 2013-2014 2010-2014

I.A.M. - Design Research Collaborative Associate Asociado 2012-2013

Casa Ernesto Meneses NGO Architecture Consultancy Consultor de Arquitectura

Rojkind Arquitectos Project Manager Gerente de Proyectos 2016-2021

2014-2016

Almazán Arquitectos y Asociados Sr. Associate Arquitecto Asociado Senior 2017-2022

Universidad Anahuac México Norte Studio Professor Profesor de Proyectos Arquitectonicos 2021-2022

iShop Mixup - Apple Premium Partner Head of Expansion Jefe de Expansión 2021-2022

CHnCo - Furniture Design and Retail Services

Founder and Chief Design Officer Fundador y Director de Diseño

Recognitions

Awards

Reconocimientos

Premios

World Architecture News || Best Temporary Space

Glocal || Best Housing || P721 || Self + A.A.A. + JKM + RLVdP

Index || Bio

Salvador F. Cortez Hultsch is a mexican architect and design researcher. He currently develops his research while teaching at Universidad Anahuac México Norte. Said research topics are focused in new technolo gies and their relationship with traditional manufacturing techniques, aiming at potentializing human capabilities within a contemporary context, where digital fabrication continues to advance while human processes seem to have stalled.

Salvador recieved his bachelor degree in Archi tecture and Urbanism at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City in 2012 and continued his studies until 2014 by aquiring a Master in Design Research from the South ern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

In 2011 he was published in Wired Magazine for his work under Satoru Sugihara in resarch over paneliza tion and computation. A year later he won the Catedra Blanca Award from Cemex for his thesis project punto.Xo la with Benjamin Romano as advisor. His professional work has been recognized internationally by multiple publications and awards, both while working for firms such as Rojkind arquitectos or Almazan Arquitectos, as for his own personal work.

Most recentlly his Real State development experience awarded him the Glocal magazine award fo best housing project in Mexico 2021 for the P721 Apart ments in Mexico City along with project partners Almazan Arquitectos, Jose Kably and Rodrigo Lopez.

Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch

Warming Hut Canada - 2015 Interstellar Restaurant Mexico - 2019

Dr Atl Apartments Mexico - 2018

Bubbler Mexico - 2020

P-05

Almazan

Self / for White Valley Sarape Mexico - 2022

Warming Hut

Team: Salvador Cortez || Michel Rojkind || Gerardo Salinas ||

Rojkind Arquitectos \\ Winnipeg, CA 2015 Adrian Aguilar || Jorge Gonzalez || Lorena Garcia || Andrea Leon || Pablo Herrera Role: Project Manager || Construction Supervision

The evolution of technology in the building industry brings into question the role of artisans in the construction of architecture to the extent that their trades are disappearing. During the design process, we questioned aspects such as: Why use contemporary technology if it’s unable to evolve along with the processes used by artisans and traditional techniques? How can an accomplished craftsman learn a new process through technology? What is the role of the architect that has access to both scopes?

With our constant focus on “digital design and local fabrication,” Rojkind Arquitectos was invited to participate in the Warming Huts annual competition, in which a group of selected designers and architects take action to design proposals for shelters to

protect against cold weather during winter season along the Red River in the city of Winnipeg, Canada.

Our project: The Hybrid Hut was produced with the help of computer-aided design, understanding the process of laminated wooden beams produced in Canada, analyzing the possibilities of using reclaimed wood along with local craft techniques, and how that process can be transformed by local artisans.

Once the digitally designed structure was assembled and put in place we arrived in Winnipeg to build the rest of the pavilion with a local team. Leaving the tree bark on the outside, the Hybrid Hut allows a contrast between the smooth inside and the texturized pieces on the outside.

Warming Hut Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com Winnipeg, CA \\ 2015

Tori Tori Restaurant

Team: Salvador Cortez || Michel Rojkind || Hector Esrawe ||

Rojkind Arquitectos \\ Mexico City \\ 2016 Jorge Gonzalez || Lorena Garcia || Andrea Leon || Pablo Herrera || Beatriz Zavala Role: Project Manager || Construction Supervision

As a marketing strategy, each Tori Tori restaurant has a unique expression. After participating in the design of Tori Tori Temistocles, Héctor Esrawe and Michel Rojkind were once again invited to collaborate in the development of the project for the new branch restaurant on the south of Mexico City.

Located inside a commercial plaza in the San Angel neighborhood, the space consists of two levels: the first being a narrow interior that connects with the second level and the green areas of its terrace. The sensation when entering the space through a stairway is determined 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. On the right side, there is a sushi bar that allows the user to see the chef’s hands while 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 located on the wall.

The upper floor is surrounded by green areas, creating the feeling of a completely open and extroverted space, enabling the user to observe the treetops of neighboring houses, a characteristic trait of the area. The memory of the previous experience is revealed through the changes of the ground level that is covered with the same material of the preceding space.

Tori Tori Restaurant Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com Mexico City \\ 2016

Interstellar Restaurant

Team: Salvador Cortez || Guillermo Suarez || Guillermo Almazan ||

Almazan Arquitectos \\ Mexico City \\ 2019 Alberto Dana || Karen Goldberg || Daniel Dana || Luis Muñoz Parcero || Arlette Salas Role: Lead Architect || Construction Supervision

Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados, Concepto Taller de Arquitectura and Pin Studio have collaborated to realize the ‘INTERSTELLAR’ restaurant in Mexico City‘s Citibanamex Center. As the name suggests, the project makes reference to the 2014 sci-fi movie. inspired by otherworldly places and the captivating mystery of undiscovered planets, the design teams’ main objective was to ‘convert the void into content, intertwining time and space in order to create a visually spectacular environment.’

To create the restaurant, Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados, Concepto ATaller de Arquitectura and Pin Studio in essence sought to develop a space where the diner could enjoy an experience ‘outside this world.’ To achieve this, they have decorated the undulating walls and ceiling with more than 250,000 LED lights. This abundance of light dots immerses diners in a glittering starry sky in contrast with the black interior. Mirrored tables help emphasize the experience, allowing guests to see the reflections of said light points as they eat.

The entire restaurant measures 200 m2 (2152.78 ft2) in area. In addition to the starry sky, guests can also experience the otherworldly theme thanks to the bookcase at the entrance, where a number of books are suspended from the ceiling, giving the impression of anti-gravity, and referencing the movie plot. The ephemeral IINTERSTELLAR restaurant has been built as part of Millesime GNP Mexico 2019 – an interactive haute cuisine event that unites the worlds best chefs along with the best designers, for a threeday gastronomical and design driven experience.

Interstellar Restaurant Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com Mexico City \\ 2019

Dr Atl Apartments

Team: Salvador Cortez || Guillermo Suarez || Guillermo Almazan ||

Almazan Arquitectos \\ Mexico City \\ 2018 Dirk Thurmer || Beatriz Almazan || Fernando Cabrera || David Garcia || David Guzman Role: Lead Architect || Construction Supervision || Investment Management

As urban lifestyle becomes more complex and stressful, the need for proper housing, designed to offer the most comfortable living conditions and relaxed environment, is demanded by young couples and small families who just can’t escape the noisy city vibes.

Dr. Atl is a project specifically aimed at said population, with house-like apartments, roof gardens and open spaces, the building proposes a new kind of living within Mexico City’s inner urban footprint. Along with this, the building is rescuing the façade of an old early-century colonial house, using its original garage entrances lo locate retail space and to access the

The apartments vary with three level units with rooftops, and one level spaces with gardens on the first floor, all of them interlocking in a complex distribution achieving the maximum efficiency of space and minimizing circulation that results in more usable interior space for its end users. Mixing family homes as well as single room flats also allows for a rich social network, enriching the community and in the end the lifestyle of whomever lives in.

Dr Atl Apartments Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com Mexico City \\ 2018

Homero Apartments

Team: Salvador Cortez || Guillermo Suarez || Guillermo Almazan ||

Almazan Arquitectos \\ Mexico City \\ 2017 Dirk Thurmer || Zury Marcos || Fernando Cabrera || David Garcia || David Guzman Role: Lead Architect || Construction Supervision

The popular Polanco neighborhood in Mexico City is known for it´s glamorous avenues, luxury shops and gourmet restaurants; right in the core, Homero apartments aims to turn into an icon of contemporary Mexican Architecture. The project is conformed of 4 apartments intertwined through the façade in a game of geometries that allow interactions between neighbors while at the same time give the building a spectacular face towards the city.

The distribution of the interior spaces, seeks to fully take advantage of the qualities and views of the lot, that supported by a series of directed partitions in the façade, provide privacy towards the private areas of the apartment. The penthouse is distributed in two levels, where the upper area works as the public program of the residence complemented by a green Rooftop, and the lower level serves as private areas, allowing for more intimate spaces. On the other hand, the Garden

Homero Apartments

House is surrounded by greenery that works both as an exterior green space, and as a buffer separating the apartments from noise in the street.

The Homero Apartments then aim to become an iconic piece of architecture in the city, while creating some of the most elegant yet sober living spaces available.

Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com Mexico City \\ 2017

Bubbler for White Valley \\ Mexico City \\ 2020

Role: Lead Designer || Fabrication Team: Salvador Cortez || Lila Acosta

Concrete is known as a noble

color and overall aesthetic; as such, it

that can be openly questionable and challenged in order to pursuit innova tive designs for something other than a building. Bubbler takes on these blurry grounds and imagines how the natural possibilities of concrete can achieve opposite aesthetics that operate in a space of tension between what the material can do and what it is supposed to do. Starting with a simple image repre sentative of lightness, peace, flow, motion, etc. such as a water droplet gently falling of an umbrella, we use geometry as the main language through which concrete will become what it is not supposed to be. The functional excuse for the project: a shelf.

The design is simple, a monolithic piece made out of concrete, where the bottom part is wide and round, while the upper part is short and flat, finally a slight 15° twist in the middle (just enough to make the piece formally change as it starts to ascend), becomes the icing on the cake. The object will be stacked in 5 levels with glass shelves on each 45cm increment. The result should be a dynamic, elegant and attractive piece of furniture able to dare the common assumptions related to concrete.

To fabricate the piece, it was 3d printed out of PLA plastic in two parts which were glued together after wards. In order to create a silicon mold, clay was used to cover a 1cm thick wall around the 3d printed part, the clay is covered with epoxy plaster and then removed so that silicon can take its place between the epoxy and the plastic. The silicon “sleeve” along with the plaster case will be used to pour concrete and create 10 exact replicas destined to be the structure for the shelves. Technically, traditional concrete (Portland cement, gravel

Bubbler Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch || @salvador.ch || scortezh@yahoo.com for White Valley \\ Mexico City \\ 2020

Sarape ”Tributo a México”

Team: Salvador Cortez || Guillermo Suarez || Alberto Dana || Karen Goldberg ||

Cortez Hultsch N Co. \\ Mexico City \\ 2022 Daniel Dana || Luis Muñoz Parcero || Arlette Salas Role: Lead Architect || Construction Supervision

After the success of Interstellar Restaurant, Cortez Hultsch n Co, Guillermo Suarez Almazan, Concepto Taller de Arquitectura and Pin Studio came back together to create a new experience for a space where gastronomy and design merge into a ingular place ready to impress even the most exquisite user. Having M[exico as the driving idea for the restaurant, a traditional “Sarape” became the perfect source of inspiration, establishing the scene for a single surface full of color and contrast capable of captivating the eyes of our gests.

The space is simply staged by a hangging surface made out of over 2,000 transparent plastic tubes and the same amount of white plastic strips. The pieces are carfully placed on the structure following a predetermined pattern that emulates the folds and movement of fabric, thus reinforcing the sence of a traditional sarape in the sky. Digitally controlled light cannons are used to program a sequence of colors that flows slowly through the tubes reflecting an atmosphere that is constantly changing although it is not percievable by the naked eye, similar to how México changes across time.

The entire restaurant measures 200 m2 (2152.78 ft2) in area. And completing the experience a mirrored wall is placed in the back to reflect the colors in a different pattern than that happening above, creating an extra layer of complexity to the space. The ephemeral SARAPE “Tributo a México” restaurant has been built as part of Millesime GNP Mexico 2022 – an interactive haute cuisine event that unites the worlds best chefs along with the best designers, for a three-day gastronomical and design driven experience.

Interstellar Restaurant Salvador Francisco Cortez Hultsch