Barcelona Social Housing
The Special Registration period for BARCELONA SOCIAL HOUSING architectural competition for students and young architects ends Sunday, October 8th, 2017.
If your team has not registered yet remember that you will save 50% on the regular entry price! We encourage you to participate in this new architectural challenge. You can be our next ARCHmedium winner!
If your team has not registered yet remember that you will save 50% on the regular entry price! We encourage you to participate in this new architectural challenge. You can be our next ARCHmedium winner!
INFORMATION ABOUT BARCELONA SOCIAL HOUSING:
Barcelona is going through a moment of housing emergency where 40% of the purchases of flats are made only to invest and the increase of tourist apartments exponentially increases the price of rents. There are large numbers of empty homes and the lack of rental housing makes the neighbors forced to move, a phenomenon known as gentrification.
Currently Barcelona only has 1.5% of social rental housing, a figure far removed from the 50% in Vienna, or 30% in cities such as Berlin or Paris.
Sensitive to this problem, from ARCHmedium we invite students and young architects to explore new typologies about social housing in a consolidated environment in the center of Barcelona. We propose the transformation of an existing office building from the 20th century to social housing. The existing 18.000m2 will house 160 homes and small scale businesses.
Sensitive to this problem, from ARCHmedium we invite students and young architects to explore new typologies about social housing in a consolidated environment in the center of Barcelona. We propose the transformation of an existing office building from the 20th century to social housing. The existing 18.000m2 will house 160 homes and small scale businesses.