Gestating / Living. Barcelona’s Social Housing Strategies

Author/s: Caterina Figuerola and Ibon Bilbao
Collection: Barcelona Architecture and Urban Planning

The collective publication where you will find out all about Barcelona’s most innovative social housing proposals.

To understand the point at which public housing stock in large urban centres finds itself, it is vital to approach the process of generating social housing in all its complexity. The need to respond sustainably to the housing emergency has prompted a rethinking of the strategy to generate housing and, more urgently, social housing.

This publication presents and analyses the various strategies for the development and construction of social housing carried out in recent years by the municipal administration in the city of Barcelona. It selects a series of projects that exemplify the maximum number of working methodologies, briefs and innovative proposals that also guarantee quality architecture.

It is a collective book in which all those involved in the process of gestating and the process of living have a voice. A voice that is materialized in a wide variety of documents: drawings, plans, renderings, photographs, reflections, debates, testimonies... A collection of situations that invite reflection.

Politics

Society

Urban Planning

Architecture

Cooperation

Social Economy

Caterina Figuerola

Qualified as an architect at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). She is cofounder of llindarquitectura. She has experience in the design and construction of public works in tendering procedures, principally social housing from the tender phase to construction, and in facilities. She developed Elviña, Spain’s first certified system of collective housing construction using local timber. She has carried out projects led by third sector associations and taken part in social development pilot projects promoted by various administrations. She is part of the technical department of Fundació Hàbitat3 and has experience in the management and organizationof works carried out by social insertion companies. She represents the Architects’ Association of Catalonia-COAC as a jury member in public tenders.