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.
Home sharing is taking in visitors in the place where you usually live, the space where you live your life. The new technologies have broadened the ambit of relationships associated with the home, extending it beyond the private sphere and connecting people at a local and an international level. This type of accommodation fosters sustainable tourism, provides an opportunity for visitors to integrate into the community and distributes the economic benefit more widely.
A right to dignified accommodation is the fourth cornerstone of a state of well-being. Having accommodation in proper condition must become a basic right, given its key role in improving the quality of life of the city's residents. The current economic situation has highlighted the need for applying a social approach to housing policies, to dampen the effects of the crisis on the more vulnerable among our fellow citizens.
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.
15 teams. 1 fanzine. 4 issues. 4 themes. Urban sphere. Self-managed. Free. Reflections. Problems. Complaints. Action. Proposals. Contradictions. Plural. Special edition for Piso Piloto.
Issue 265 of the journal Quaderns includes an interview with Ada Colau about the right to housing and other articles focusing on ways of thinking about cooperative housing models.
An exhibition of 20 social housing projects designed over the past 10 years by Catalan architects aged under 50 for Barcelona and its environs. Cities Connection Project has connected Barcelona with Ticinio (2013) and Geneva (2014)
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.
The Recetas Urbanas – Santiago Cirujeda studio has worked on problems associated with access to housing and looked for solutions that challenge the laws currently in force and the ways of building housing. I want a home looks back at the demands and achievements in housing over the 14 years Recetas Urbanas has been working in this field.
