casa toriello | soconusco cultural lab

creative direction + spatial design

Soconusco is a territory shaped by centuries of cultural convergence, agriculture, and migration. This project proposes a cultural space and café as a place for connection, visibility and projection, where local identity is both preserved and allowed to evolve.

Conceived as a meeting point between past and future, the space brings together coffee, art and community to activate cultural memory. It celebrates the everyday, the handmade and the collective as forms of resistance and creation.

Culture is not only inherited, it is lived, practiced and transformed. The project seeks to integrate culture into daily life by creating a space where people can meet, share and reconnect with their roots. Rather than simply preserving the past, it reinterprets it, turning memory into experience, learning and community while shaping a living future.

casa toriello | soconusco cultural lab

Global- Local Narrative

Identity Context

Social and Community Contribution

Economic and Cultural Impact