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La Balma

La Borda's sibling — proof the model repeats.

La Balma hero — gallery facade (photo needed)

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.

Galleries — photo needed
Access galleries onto the shared side
Common terrace — photo needed
The communal terrace
Street facade — photo needed
Twenty homes on a public-land lease in Poblenou

Lessons for Berkeley

  • The second building is cheaper than the first: the charter, lawyers, and lessons are already paid for.
  • Cession of use survived contact with a second lot — the wrapper travels.
  • Twenty homes is a viable co-op: don't wait for the perfect big parcel.
  • Publish everything, as Lacol does — the next group starts at chapter two.

Sources: lacol.coop

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