La Borda Housing Cooperative, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain, Europe
Completed · Residential · CLT Cooperative Housing · Mediterranean · 2019
A 28-unit cooperative housing block built on publicly-ceded land under a 75-year surface rights agreement, using CLT structure and a collective ownership model that removes units from the speculative market permanently. It demonstrated a replicable affordable housing model outside standard developer finance.
Innovation highlights
- CLT superstructure in dense urban context in Mediterranean climate
- surface rights (cessió d'ús) model permanently decommodifies housing units
- collective ownership with no individual unit resale rights
- passive solar design and natural cross-ventilation for Mediterranean climate
- replicated as policy model across Catalonia and other European cities
- Client / Developer
- La Borda Cooperative
- Architect
- Lacol Arquitectura Cooperativa
- Engineer
- Societat Orgànica
- Type
- CLT Cooperative Housing
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