[Project completed]
Pomaret it was an urban farmhouse project located in the Sarrià district of Barcelona and the entity's first cooperative housing project in the city of Barcelona. The project was carried out for 7 years, from 2012 to April 2019. It was one of the first urban farmhouse projects in the city of Barcelona along with the Xalet Mercedes de la MULA (Masoveria Urbana para la Llar Alternative), an organization that promotes urban masoveria and brings together different initiatives.
The coexistence project Pomaret it allows us to recover an old house that was uninhabited and in great need of rehabilitation.
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The project of Pomaret it was made up of 6 families who have lived there for 7 years, since 2013. During the development of the community project we incorporated new members and some others left, and now that we have finished this stage we continue to live together in different spaces of the city .
The group met in La Tafanera, an occupied building in the hole of shame in Barcelona that brought together 15 people from the feminist and LGBTI movement and where the feeling of community and the need to look for models to be able to live in community sharing principles and values. After the eviction we were looking for empty houses on the border between Collserola and the city of Barcelona with the idea of living in a community making an urban farmhouse.
Urban masovia agreement
In 2012, an urban farmstead agreement was reached between the ownership of the farm and Sostre Cívic. The urban masoveria is a contract that commits the masoveras to carry out various rehabilitation, improvement and maintenance activities of the house in exchange for being able to use it for a specific and agreed time.
The agreement provided that during the first 3 years we would do the main works that we executed ourselves with the support and advice of the technicians of Sostre Cívic. The house had 500m2 of useful space and more than 400m2 of garden and orchard. During these years we carried out maintenance work on the garden and vegetable garden, and the rehabilitation of the main facade and the gazebo and some of the windows and doors of the house. We enabled and equipped the community kitchen and shared living space. We were also responsible for paying the IBI of the project through a fee.
During these years we had to combine our lives, jobs, relationships with the challenges of rehabilitation and with the conflicts that may arise when living in a community, with individual and collective needs.
The urban farmhouse was an opportunity for the group and for this project, but it also led us to a state of tension with the property at the time that he sold the property and wanted to force the break of the contract in order to dispose of the house in the new property. This fact led us to the completion of the project in April 2019 after months of negotiations to avoid a legal conflict.
Marta and Gràcia, two of the 14 people in our group, tell us about the project and their experience living in this farm located in the Sarrià neighborhood:
If you want to promote an urban farmhouse project, you can consult the manual we edited.