The simplest stroke, the deepest intention
At the threshold of each new year, we are given the chance to condense, in a single gesture, a position towards architecture and the city. The closing of 2025 is structured around the most elemental graphic unit: a line that inscribes a human figure in space and poses a question that precedes every architectural and urban project: who will inhabit this space?
Every project begins before it takes shape on any medium. It is born in that first encounter with our clients: when we listen and give form to their wishes, recognise their needs, read the physical, cultural and environmental context and, almost simultaneously, begin to imagine a possible life around the future project. The person who commissions the work is a constitutive part of that initial architectural gesture: they are the starting point of any design operation. Every project is born from a client and, when their voice is not yet clearly defined, it becomes necessary to imagine it and make it audible in order to design with intention.
Our year-end card takes up that first gesture —the moment when a conversation becomes a project— and embraces it as the conceptual core of our closing message for this cycle.
Scale, body, and inhabitable space
In architectural drawing, scale often appears as a human figure that helps us understand the size of spaces. From this perspective, scale is not just a measurement: it is also a gesture that places the body, the subject, at the centre of the project.
Seen this way, every drawn space entails a responsibility towards the everyday experience that will unfold within it. Scale does not only measure; it also recognises, includes, invites.
Drawing presence
The graphic gesture of drawing human figures is an acknowledgement that, even before any body of work exists, there is already someone who will inhabit it. In this way, space ceases to be an abstract void and becomes a potential place, charged with relationships.
Architecture thus appears as the result of a shared effort between those who design space and those who sustain it with their everyday lives.
The end of this cycle and the beginning of a new one in 2026 propose a clear synthesis: architecture acquires its fullest meaning when it ceases to think of itself in solitude and is understood as a stage for life. A single graphic gesture is enough to remind us of this: to inscribe a human figure in space is, at the same time, to imagine a habitable world and to accept the responsibility of making it possible.
Let’s make this year a shared project.
Happy 2026!
