The architecture and urbanism of informal barraca settlements is characterized by a precariousness that does not guarantee optimal living conditions. However, we can also find virtues in the construction practices and informal ways of making the city that the planned city lacks, especially the possibility of autonomously deciding on one’s own built environment and modifying it based on the communities’ own needs.
The architecture collective
Straddle3
has been working in practice for two decades with some of the strategies that we can find in the informal city, such as self-construction or the use of reused materials; developing at the same time regulatory frameworks that allow regularizing these strategies without neutralizing their capacity for transformation.
We will talk about all this next Thursday, January 31, starting at 6 p.m. in
L’Harmonia
, the art space of the Museu d’Història de L’Hospitalet with David Juárez, one of the founding members of Straddle3, with a view to the construction of the future “headquarters” of the CICdB, a community space dedicated to understanding and practicing the city from informality.