Architects
Lacol is a cooperative of architects
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Lacol is a cooperative of architects stablished in 2009 in the neighborhood of Sants, in Barcelona. We work to generate community infrastructures for the sustainability of life, as a key tool for the eco-social transition, through architecture, cooperativism and participation.
The architectural collective of Lacol examines the power of community. The collective’s new office is siuated on top of La Comunal, a project designed by Lacol in Barcelona’s neighbourhood of Sants. Underneath the offices lies La Ciutat Invisible (The Invisible City), a bookshop and cultural project exploring new ideas of working and living in communities and in resistance to the capitalist system.
Lacol worked closely with the future residents of La Borda in Barcelona. The community’s 28 residential units were completed in October 2018 after a participatory process. La Borda sits on the edge of Can Batlló, a former industrial zone. The first discussions of La Borda emerged in 2012 as residents and activists began discussing Barcelona’s housing crisis and sought for novel ways of living communally. Here’s an architectural blueprint of the project.
