PORTUGUESE CENTER OF CHINESE MEDICINE

PORTUGUESE CENTER OF CHINESE MEDICINE

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The challenge posed to MC-A was the creation of the Portuguese Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Lisbon. This space would host a vast exhibition on the various treatments and techniques available in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as some of the tools and medicines used by this ancient practice.

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Based on a history as rich and long as the one that today represents the People's Republic of China, MC-A carried out a reinterpretation inspired by the imaginary and tools typical of traditional culture, resorting to a metric of pieces and evocative rhythms of the writing systems Chinese.

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The outlined program consisted of an area dedicated to ancestral products used as medicines, the Pharmacy; an area dedicated to the exhibition, an auditorium for around 25 people, a training room and three treatment rooms for demonstrating the various techniques.

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