According to the Museological Project (P.M. – Drafted by the Mário Soares Foundation, Lisbon) the most relevant objectives to be implemented at the Slave and Trafficking Memorial (M.E.) held in Cacheu (District Capital, north of the territory of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau), was to promote the collection, conservation as well as “make available objects and artifacts” that could and may have been identified in archaeological campaigns such as the “cloths di pinti”, with “missing” motifs and drawings, and which present close links with the slave trade, while promoting, disseminating the collection and treatment of testimonies of the oral tradition of the memory of slavery, to be shown in a permanent structure open to the community including activities geared towards schools, cultural associations, young people, elders, national, foreign and diaspora researchers.

The Memorial was implemented in a Colonial Architecture Property, and the Building, connoted as “Casa Gouveia”, was in a high state of degradation “ruin”, as well as the rest of the property.

This contingency enabled and provided a greater degree of intervention in the development of the architecture project proposal, that translated it to the volumetric and spatial level in a Requalification/Rehabilitation/Expansion Project aiming to carry out, training/recomposition of four distinct buildings, and also relying on the insertion of a new architectural element, functioning as a link of connection/unification of the built set – Input / Attendance of the ME – and through the space, vertical connections (for mobility/accessibility) were located, allowing the access to the different levels of the Memorial without architectural barriers.

From the set of buildings proposed for the Realization of the ME, only the Main Building is currently done – “Casa Gouveia” – although from the beginning of its design, the Memorial was prepared to be carried out in different stages of execution and therefore designed/elaborated in a ductile way, in order to adapt to the circumstantial needs, without conflicting with the Project of its “initial” Set. At the same time it was possible to maintain and harmoniously preserve the aesthetic/architectural and functional aspect, although the contextual issues, required the Architecture Project to be reworked in all the aspects mentioned above, due to the reduction of the space resulting from this situation.

A projective reformulation, in which the attention of reorganizing the available environments, so as not to harm in the future the execution of the entire Memorial Assembly of Slavery and Trafficking Slave, at Cacheu, at Guinea-Bissau Republic.