Ideas, strategies and projects that give rise to pilot projects. They tackle the challenges raised by the stakeholders involved and which are found in particular places in Barcelona or Medellín.
This map, a starting point for launching a debate, presents the idea of building 100,000 new public homes for rent in Barcelona. The city needs a housing stock capable of remedying the profit-seeking abuses of speculation and of guaranteeing residents’ right to a home.
Barcelona Links features the endeavours and conclusions of 24 workshops held at the School of Architecture. The task was concentrated in seven major areas of urban discontinuity, a diagnosis was arrived at and alternatives produced that revealed previously unidentified opportunities for improvement and development. The issue of links is a vital and pressing issue in metropolitan Barcelona because our territory, despite being a rich, diverse and powerful mosaic, is also a piecemeal assortment of barriers. A new political awareness will have to emerge sooner or later to enable a solution to these barriers to be formulated with exactitude, legitimacy and a successful outcome.
Racons Públics is a competition that seeks to involve the community in designing the city. It seeks to recover and inject new life into degraded, neglected, forgotten or undervalued places and make them suitable for public use.