La Borda's sibling — proof the model repeats.
City
Barcelona
Year
2021
Homes
20
Architects
Lacol + LaBoqueria
Tenure
Cession of use
Land
Public lease, Poblenou
Three years after La Borda, the same tenure landed on a different lot: twenty homes in cession of use on public land in Poblenou, designed by Lacol with LaBoqueria, with the familiar grammar — access galleries, shared rooms, a communal terrace, modest private units backed by generous common ones.
What to steal: the repetition itself. La Balma is the evidence that La Borda was a model, not a miracle — same legal wrapper, same participatory process, second verse. That is the whole thesis of this site's Scale page.
Lessons for Berkeley
Sources: lacol.coop
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