Transformations of Barcelona and the Metropolitan Area: Collective Housing

This session brings together recent collective housing projects in Barcelona and its metropolitan area to explore how housing is being redefined across different models of production, tenure, and community life. From social and affordable housing to cooperative and private initiatives, the projects understand dwelling as a shared urban condition, where the relationship between home, building, street, and neighbourhood becomes central.

Across these projects, collective life is shaped through flexible typologies, intermediate thresholds, shared domestic spaces, and architectures open to change over time. Through bioclimatic design, low-impact materials, participatory processes, and new forms of spatial organization, they reflect on housing as a framework for comfort, adaptability, care, and collective identity.