La Borda Housing Cooperative: Self-management, Collective Property, Sustainability, and Affordability

Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, LaCol, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project

Affordable Housing, Architect’s role, Barcelona, Collaborative Architecture, Collaborative work, Collective development, Collective housing, Community, Consulting community, Cross Laminated Timber, Designing Matter, Developing policies, Economics, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Housing, Housing market, Housing price, Political & Economic Approach, Politics, Project, Social contributor, Social housing, Spain, Sustainability, Timber, Wood

La Borda defines itself as the first housing cooperative following the model of cession of use to be developed in Barcelona and built on public land. The initiative emerged in the context of the urban renewal of Can Batlló, a former industrial site located in the district of Sants-Monjuïc (Barcelona).