Zero Flat selected in XII BIAU

Eva Serrats

Pis Zero, of an experimental typology towards its replicability, has been selected to Habitar al Margen from XII BIEAU Zero Flat is a pilot programme of low-demand temporary housing for the homeless, proposing an alternative way to ensure access to housing. A conventional flat was renovated and transformed into a “street flat”, giving people who… Read more »

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Places to Co-exist

Eva Serrats

For a congress on sustainable collective housing, being a concept that has been formed through adjectival aggregation and us being a team that works from a project-based standpoint, we propose our contribution be describing specific cases: projects that have led us to consider what today’s spaces for collective life could be like. First of all,… Read more »

Speaking about La Floresta Speaks

Eva Serrats

Having to talk about something that technically does not exist forces you to make some preliminary remarks.   As if it were a matter of writing about a presence or a ghost, which manifests itself only through the traces it leaves behind. Surely La Floresta Speaks can only be described with facts: What happened? How… Read more »

Conference on Cooperative Architecture

Eva Serrats

agenFaced with the growing desire of some citizens to take part in the processes transforming the city, the Catalan Association of Architects, through the Plan Impulsa “Programme for Improving Competitiveness”, hosted a Conference on the active role of architects in participatory processes and the tools needed to make real participation possible, suitable and useful.  … Read more »

DIY rehabilitation of your home

Eva Serrats

In July 2014, a group of young squatters took over one of the teachers’ houses in La Floresta (Sant Cugat del Vallès), in a building with six terraced homes owned by the city that were not being used at that time. They were calling for the City Council to turn those homes into the first… Read more »