La Balma

Cooperative housing is ‘city making’ in the urban context of the project, developing a process to adapt to reality, giving new meaning to the territory based on its imprints and locales, and opening up community spaces at the street level to weave in collaborations with the neighbourhood.

‘We’re experimenting, one project at a time. In La Balma, for example, the issue of radiant walls or geothermal energy was introduced. Using wood completely changed the system compared to La Borda. Some things seem to repeat themselves because we learn as we go.’ Carles Baiges (Lacol)

Secondary school

Primary care centre 200 m

2 min

La Balma is located on a green axis full of neighbourhood facilities and aims to collaborate as another facility along this axis.

‘City making’ is one of the values of cooperative housing.

Can Batlló: Self-managed, community-centric neighbourhood space, of which Sotrac is a part, and where