By viewing Mérida through a post-colonial lens, this design intervention explores how architectural interventions can respond to the preservation policies of Yucatán’s Centro Histórico. These policies are designed to preserve and restore the architectural heritage embedded in colonialism— in its inherent racism and erasure of cultures, to create spaces of multiple temporalities or cultural perspectives. Approached as a way to reframe the Mestizo identity intersecting with the Hispanic narrative, the design project explores how to intervene within remnants of colonial architecture, and of abandoned homes, without bringing about the process of gentrification. These interventions create spaces to celebrate and revive the Maya traditions within cultural centres, focusing on the practices that form the foundations of the Mestizo identity.