LaCol SCCL . LaBoqueria Taller d’Arquitectura

La Balma is a project promoted by Sostre Cívic, which was the winner to develop a plot in the Poblenou neighborhood in the first public tender for leasehold of land for cooperative housing. The project seeks to expand the stock of non-speculative and affordable housing in the city.
During the competition phase, a socio-economic diagnosis of the group and a participatory process were made to work on and reach a consensus proposal, in which the user and the community play a leading role; the outcome is a building understood as an infrastructure that accompanies them and allows them to evolve freely from three social spheres: the neighborhood, the community, the unit of conviviality.
Taking into account the available resources, the focus was also on the initial cost of construction and use of the building, thinking about the final economic impact for the user avoiding energy poverty by reducing the cost of comfort by more than 50%. Continue reading LaCol . LaBoqueria