Bruna De Almeida

This project explores how architecture can act as a living archive for the Portuguese community in Johannesburg South. Rooted in themes of memory, migration, and cultural hybridity, the design creates spaces that preserve and transmit identity across generations. Through everyday rituals like cooking, gathering and storytelling, the architecture becomes a vessel for remembering and remaking belonging. The programme includes spaces for cultural events, language, craft, food, and informal learning, weaving together the past and present. Rather than a static monument, the project offers a dynamic and evolving site of cultural expression, an anchor point for diasporic memory. Here, architecture holds not only walls but also the echoes of lived experience, offering continuity in the in-between.