Ilopolis Bread Museum in Brasil by Brasil Arquitetura

Culture needs to be understood as something ranging from tradition to invention. There are certain things created and built in the past that need to be preserved, otherwise we will be trapped within a distorted, disfiguring present. But by the same token, we need to bet on the new, as it is a fundamental means for the establishment and transformation of our communities and our society as a whole.

Brazilian culture, being at the same time open and critical for assimilation and re-creation of languages and information from other regions of the world, is profoundly characterized by the never-ending dialectics between tradition and invention.

Within this context, the Colognese Mill had been built by the Italian immigrants; and within the same cultural conditions, we have conducted the making of the Bread Museum complex, incorporating the museum, the Baking Workshop, and the restored old Mill.

The restoration of the mill, realized in conjunction with the Italo Latino American Institute (IILA) and on the basis of a project prepared by the University of Caxias do Sul and the 12th regional sector of IPHAN, was carried out according to strict rules of scientific restoration, recovering the original elements and functions and reintegrating the abandoned back into the day-to-day of Ilópolis

Architect: Brasil Arquitetura
Location: Ilopolis, RS, Brasil
Design Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2007
Co-Author: Anselmo Turazzi