SP25 Arquitectura uses rulers and templates as graphic and compositional elements, not as measuring tools, to construct ANHEL. Every arrangement, every alignment, every curve, every intersection is the result of conscious manipulation, where the precision of geometry, previously translated into lines on paper, now becomes a three-dimensional expressive language.
"...they are freed from their original function and transformed into translucent, colorful fragments. Arranged like pieces of a mosaic, they let light through and create superpositions that change with the eye and with the passage of time."
SP25 Arquitectura
The typical linearity of the rulers, the repeating patterns of the templates, and the void generated between them create a visual structure reminiscent of the silhouette of a house. The result is a highly poetic interweaving of abstract forms that reveals the inherent beauty of drawing instruments, their ability to organize space and generate, through rhythm and harmony, an intuition: the imagined idea of a house: "A house built from the dream of living in it."
The result is an abstraction that allows the viewer to recognize the architectural origin of the elements from which the work was constructed, appreciating them as autonomous forms of visual expression. ANHEL is also a tribute to the memory of manual drawing and to the creativity that emerged from the intersection of the ruler, the template, and the architect's imagination.
ANHEL by SP25 Arquitectura. Photograph by SP25 Arquitectura.
Project description by SP25 Arquitectura
"Anhel" is a work that shapes the dreams of those who imagine a home. As a collective memory of the architect's craft, the piece is constructed from hundreds of technical drawing templates—fragments of a craft, design tools. Layered together, these brightly colored templates create a vibrant surface that plays with light, transparency, and repetition.
The work is composed of 1,200 technical drawing templates used to draw objects, furniture, or steel profiles on architectural plans. Here, however, these templates are freed from their original function and transformed into translucent, colorful fragments. Arranged like pieces of a mosaic, they let light through and create superpositions that change with the eye and with the passing of the day.
Amidst this constellation of forms, the void draws the silhouette of a house—an elemental geometry, open to the gaze and the imagination. A house that does not yet exist, but is intuited. A project. A desire. A longing to inhabit. A template made of templates. A house built from the dream of living in it.
Installed at the College of Architects of Catalonia in Tortosa, the work engages directly with its architectural surroundings. ANHEL, presented at the A Cel Obert Festival, Tortosa 2025, took place from October 3 to 5 and received the Audience Award.
