SAVVIA in Mexico City: The table as a place of origin, memory, and heritage | by WORC Ricardo Martínez + Camila Ureña

In SAVVIA’s design proposal, the architecture responds to the idea of cooking as an act of sharing. WORC, Ricardo Martínez and Camila Ureña, blend culinary memories with scenographic design to create a sensory interior landscape in Mexico City.

SAVVIA was born as a family project, a place where cooking is not a isolated craft but a living heritage. Culinary memory guides the experience: childhood flavors, inherited gestures, the silences that gather around the table.

Architecture responds to that same idea. It’s not a neutral container, but a stage that holds and amplifies the act of sharing. 

At the center a big red stone table is the heart of the restaurant. Here glances, words, affections and presences converge, all in one gesture.

The spatial organization is based on a single decision: free the ground floor for diners and elevate the kitchen so hosting and sharing is the core of the experience.

The central table is both sculptural and symbolic, it organizes the space. Around it a stone totem and a metal light structure reinforce the verticality, the ritual character of the project. Brass detailed walls and stone accent lighting follow the path and the whole.

Furniture and tableware extend this idea. Designed and selected with the same criteria they expand the concept of containment and hospitality to every detail. Wood supports, stone grounds, light softens.

In parallel the cuisine moves between the ancestral and the contemporary, exploring local ingredients and flavors that evoke memory and continuity.

Dining at SAVVIA means to recover a different sense of time, one measured in conversations, laughter and shared silences. Here contemporary mexican cuisine meets memory, what was already written on the palate and transforms it into narrative.

In short SAVVIA is a human project: a house turned restaurant, a space where the table is the bridge between generations and where architecture and food come together to remind us that sharing is one of the most honest and human ways of living together.

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Facts & Credits
Title SAVVIA
Typology Interior, Restaurant
Location Centro Histórico, Mexico City
Surface 153 m2
Status Completed, 2025
Architecture WORC Ricardo Martínez + Camila Ureña
Collaborators Ricardo Martínez, Camila Ureña, Isabel Ortega, Alejandra Magdaleno, Ximena Uribe
Photography Zaickz Moz
Text by the author