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In April 2023, we were awarded the tender called by the Granollers City Council to build and manage the first cooperative housing project in the municipality of Vallès. The competition, called in març by unanimous vote of the plenum, it envisages the building on the 800 m² municipal lot at Carrer Rosselló 97, in the Lledoner district.
The jury's report gave a very positive assessment of the protocols and mechanisms for managing defaults and the allocation of homes, and highlights the proposed shared mobility plan, based on shared bicycles and electric cars. "Sostre Cívic allots the ground floor to community and activity uses, thus strengthening the project's urban vocation", states the municipal report, which also mentions the proposed architectural design that takes into account minimizing maintenance and improving its state of conservation.
The winning project is rated with one total of 5,2 million euros, and has funding of €900.000 from the Next Generation Fund. In addition, in order to facilitate inclusion, the management of one of the 29 homes will be transferred to the City Council so that it can allocate to vulnerable groups. This apartment will be exempt from contributing the initial social capital.
WIDE COURSE AND LOCAL SUPPORT
The project, called El Cairó, will consist of 29 homes on the ground floor and 3 floors, with large shared communal spaces. From a terrace with collective laundry to a multipurpose room located on the ground floor, open to the outside, designed to be shared for neighborhood uses.
The project is driven by a dozen members of Sostre Cívic neighbors of Granollers. Since 2019, they have been developing actions in the municipality to publicize the housing cooperative model. Participating in fairs or giving different informative talks. Various studies have also been carried out with the city council to study the feasibility of developing projects on different municipal lots or farms to rehabilitate.
El Cairó also collects support from different local entities, from theAteneo Cooperative of Vallès Oriental I la Solidarity Economy Fair of Granollers, Until The Vallesana Pomegranate (association of organic producers and consumers of Granollers which groups 400 family units) i Granollers Pedal. These last two entities contemplate the possibility of being able to install the headquarters of their local projects in the commercial premises of the building.
A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WITH SHARED MOBILITY
The architectural project has been drawn up jointly by the offices of Ravetllat and Zaga. Both have extensive experience in social and cooperative housing projects. ravished will design the municipal rental housing in Font Verda de Granollers, and Back has been responsible for the pioneering cooperative housing project Clau Mestra in Sant Cugat, also managed by Sostre Cívic.
The construction will be made with low ecological footprint materials such as wood, which will be used for the structure. The building will be equipped with photovoltaic panels, aerothermia, recycling of gray water and rainwater. The facilities will be centralized, in line with the collective ownership model and for the advantages it entails in terms of cost and energy efficiency. El Cairó, in addition, is committed to sustainable mobility with ten car spaces and collective electric bicycles, breaking the norm of one parking space per home. These vehicles will be managed in collaboration with We are Mobility, in a pioneering inter-cooperation agreement between a housing cooperative and another shared mobility cooperative.
DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF CAIRO?
De September to November 2023 the last process of incorporations into the group ofEl Cairó. People who signed up and didn't join the group have been put on a waiting list. Whenever there are vacancies, this list will be used to contact people to fill the driving force. No new registrations are planned for now.
For more information, you can consult the information file of the project (October 2023) or you can write to us at info@sostrecivic.cat.
