Meloso Restaurant is a Restaurant and bar in Mexico designed by local design studio Arqaz Arquitectura. Because the project is located in a town that originated in Mexico City, it still retains the remains of the pre-Spanish era. The studio adopted the vernacular architectural gesture of the site, using wide walls and mud to frame the space with these original materials and give the materials new life and architectural elements, making the building contemporary and timeless at the same time.

The reconstruction of the government and some foundations is an attack on the memory, a landscape replacement, a substitution of the place with foreign constructions, they have put aside in their design, architectural identity and its inhabitant’s way of occupying associated with their forms of production and their social network that has been consolidated for decades through their patron saint festivities and coexistence in patios and smoke kitchens, imposing a generic housing model that does not take into account its sociocultural context and fractures the customs that give identity to the people.The furniture refers to and is a tribute to their way of sitting at festivities, which consists in putting wooden planks on stacks of partitions. 

Meloso's proposal arises from this reflection, which is why Arqaz Arquitectura pick up the thread of the site’s vernacular architecture gestures and take its tectonics up in the use of wide walls and mud that make up the raw material with which the space is intervened, giving new life to the materials and their possibilities of building elements are what make what is built contemporary, but at the same time timeless.