shanghai café

categoría

música

Cliente

shanghai café

Información

Shanghai Café es una plataforma global de eventos que conecta diversas escenas creativas a través de la música, el arte y el diseño espacial inmersivo. Cada edición reúne tanto a bailarines emergentes como a veteranos dentro de entornos cuidadosamente curados que priorizan la atmósfera, la coherencia estética y la integración comunitaria.

Los eventos se expandieron a través de múltiples ciudades Morelia, Ciudad de México, Monterrey y Miami transformando lugares distintos en ecosistemas culturales temporales moldeados por el sonido, la iluminación y la intervención artística.

Ubicación

Morelia, México

Año

2024

Información

shanghai café, festival internacional de cine de morelia (FICM)

Créditos

Opening Party Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (FICM)

For its Morelia edition, Shanghai Café took the form of the official opening celebration of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia.

Hosted inside a traditional colonial house in the historic center of Morelia, the event transformed domestic architecture into a temporary audiovisual ecosystem.

Laser systems traced architectural lines across walls and corridors, activating arches, patios, and textures with precise beams and volumetric haze. Lighting design shifted the house from a historical residence into an immersive night environment.

The result was a layered spatial narrative: cinema audiences, artists, and guests moved through rooms where heritage architecture met contemporary visual language. Music functioned as the connective force, while light sculpted transitions between intimacy and collective intensity.

Ubicación

Ciudad de México, México

Año

2025

Información

shanghai café, ciudad de méxico

Créditos

For its Mexico City edition, Shanghai Café took over Musak, unfolding across two distinct yet connected atmospheres within the venue.

The main room was conceived as the central pulse of the night a fully immersive dance environment shaped by light, rhythm, and graphic intervention. Custom neon signage inspired by Chinese typography was designed and installed to reinforce the platforms visual identity, embedding cultural references directly into the spatial language. A laser system was integrated to redraw the architecture in motion, cutting through haze and amplifying the kinetic energy of the dance floor.

The rooftop operated as a secondary sonic landscape. More open and elevated, it offered a contrasting yet cohesive atmosphere, with its own music programming and lighting design. Subtle washes and controlled fixtures shaped the perimeter, allowing the skyline and night air to become part of the experience.

Together, both spaces functioned as a dual ecosystem interior intensity and open-air release unified through aesthetic coherence, spatial design, and Shanghai Cafés signature fusion of music and immersive environment.

Ubicación

Monterrey, México

Año

2025

Información

café de shanghai, monterrey

Créditos

The Monterrey edition marked a larger-scale expansion of Shanghai Café a higher-capacity gathering that amplified the platforms immersive identity within the industrial energy of downtown MTY. Hosted at Venue 867, the event embraced a more expansive production design, adapting the venue into a fully articulated spatial experience.

Rastro led the complete production design of the night, shaping the atmosphere through scenography, lighting systems, and visual identity integration.

Laser installations activated the volume of the space, cutting through haze and emphasizing architectural depth. At the center of the main room, a giant Chinese coin structure was designed and installed as the DJ booth backdrop functioning as both symbolic anchor and visual focal point. The piece translated cultural reference into large-scale scenography, reinforcing Shanghai Cafés graphic universe within the physical environment.

In addition to the spatial intervention, a full photographic and video documentation was developed. Disposable cameras were distributed among guests, encouraging them to capture the night from an unfiltered, personal perspective. This gesture introduced an organic counterpoint to the high-production environment blending curated visuals with raw, collective memory.

Ubicación

Miami, EE. UU.

Año

2025

Información

café de Shanghái, F1 Miami

Créditos

The Miami edition took place during the weekend of Formula 1.

Hosted at Paraíso Estéreo, the venue was reconfigured to embody the aesthetic language and atmosphere of Shanghai Café. 

Light and haze were used to reshape depth and perception within the space, transforming the club environment into a cohesive sensory landscape. The goal was not to overwrite the venues character, but to reinterpret it infusing it with Shanghai Cafés signature balance of graphic symbolism, rhythmic intensity, and atmospheric design.

Créditos

producción y diseño de escenario:

arturo hernandez principe

miguel anaya


gráficos y animaciones:

arturo hernandez principe


mapeo láser:

cesar rios


diseño y programación de iluminación:

arturo hernandez principe

cesar rios


Dirección y Edición:

Carlos Vargas Bernal


Fotografía y Video:

Carlos Vargas Bernal

enrique ramirez


diseño floral:

hannah príncipe


producido por rastro.

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