Cella

For Os Espacialistas, geometry is the relationship of affection that humans establish with nature.

Cella is a kind of space with anatomical, architectural, and sculptural qualities. At its core, it is a body (cell), a space (cell), and a material (cork). A division with walls, touch, and ground. A place for the body to stroll, speak, and play; to exercise the latent artistic reproductive system within us and transform imagination into a relational organ of poetic investigation.

It is dreamily inhabited by a swarm of cubes, sown to be harvested, tossed, built, and moved from place to place.

The only thought that counts is the one that walks.

The cube is born from the foot. Always lying down, it is the dreamiest of all geometric shapes.

To divide, remember, choose, associate, mix, build, err, and forget freely are some of the active verbs in this minimal unit of imagining, happening, experimenting, and playing at various scales, in a continuous relationship between time, the body, and the surrounding space.

To smile, release images, and let the corporosity of the space intertwine and sculpt those who visit is the secret of this playground and meditation space in de/construction.

To play is to repeat the future with wonder and joy.

Now, the inside is on the outside.

Once Again.

Cella is nominated for ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2025 in the Cultural Architecture category.