The Bread Museum and the Caminho dos Moinhos

preexistences, intervencion and regional site production

Abstract

The article presents the case study of the Museu do Pão as a strategy of the regional place production through the architectural intervention. For that, the concepts of positive metastasis, acupuncture and placemaking are discussed, relating territorial scale and memory through the rearchitecture. It starts from the territorial scale, presenting, first, a cultural panorama of the Caminho Moinhos and identifying the Museu do Pão as a first initiative in the way of the conservation of the cultural memory.
Key-words: Caminho dos Moinhos, Museu do Pão, positive metastasis, acupunture, placemaking