arqbag. Cooperativa d'arquietctura

Sostres. For a solidarity architecture.

An inter-cooperation project of Arqbag and Pol·len, which aims to create a publishing line, to accommodate projects that respond to social and solidarity architecture.

The books, self-produced, or collaborations, are wanted to be created from experiences and debates, which are linked to each other by grouping them into themes that respond to the current moment. They value the commitment to the community and the territory and that they deal with the infrastructures for life, bringing to light what happens there, what is transformed there, what is lived there.

The first of this series of publications, L’Escola Expandida (the expanded school), comes from the concern to learn with and for the inhabitants of the future. Emphasising the concept of comfort, and educating in the use and understanding of the spaces that surround us.​​

01. L’escola expandida. (the expanded school)
Rethinking learning spaces.

The expanded school. Rethinking learning spaces is the first book in the SOTRES series by Arabag, architecturel cooperative and Pol·len editions.

For a long time, the School has been at the center of a debate that calls for the need for changes and the need to rethink learning spaces. The health and climate emergency forces us to reconsider priorities, such as the relationship between the school, the territory and the community.

The proposal aims to interact with these spaces and interpret them from an experiential perspective and attitude, to understand these infrastructures as a collective laboratory where we can experience and learn about the space that surrounds us.

These are spaces of opportunity to explore, analyze, rethink and transform the immediate environment around livability and comfort. And to do this we propose collective action, involving the entire educational community to respond to the needs of the users themselves and generate tools to decide and act towards an energetic, social and environmental transition.

The learning spaces go beyond the continent or the site. And it is from this idea that the concept of expanded school arises. The expanded school is the opportunity to permanently explore the limits, because the important thing is the processes and interrelations that are generated there.

With this book we want to share experiences, views and ways of doing things, to contribute to building and articulating new learning spaces, defending a collective approach from a Social and Solidarity Architecture.

With texts by Coque Claret, Arqbag, El Globus Vermell, Mariona Genís, Germán Llerena, Equal Saree, Voltes, Lemur, Troncsijoc, and Jaume Carbonell.

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02. Adobant l’arquitectura. (Fertilising architecture)
Cooperative organisation and the professional world.

Adobant l’arquitectura is the second book in the SOTRES series, by Arabag, an architecture cooperative and Pol·len editions.

Seasoning architecture means enriching it, seasoning it to give it a special taste. Is it possible to season it with the values of the social and solidarity economy?

This is the challenge we have set ourselves in this first edition of the course ‘Cooperative organization and the professional world’. And in this book you will find the texts and images resulting from this process.

​They write in this book: Simona Cerri, Jordi Mitjans and Adrià Vilajoana (Arqbag), Jordi Garcia (L’Apòstrof), Montse Lamata (Ensó), Ivan Miró (La ciutat invisible), Roser Casanovas (Collectiu Punt 6), Amadeu Santacana (ETSAV-UPC). And from @Coop_etsav: Clara Alsedà Rodríguez, Chloé Borreguero Boleis, Núria Rondón Clemente, Emma Sebastia Sarroca, Alba Morcillo Sans, Carmen Chacón Hermoso, Christian Fernandes Coelho, Pere Forner Rovira, Irati Goikoetxea Fanega, Pau Heras Baldi, David Palma Marimon , Sila Alarcón, Laura Bifet, Joana Busquet, Yelena Znamenskaya, Mireia Segura Soler, Ainhoa Bobis Cid, Óscar Rodriguez Urbano, Pau Admella Aymerich, Julia Reñones de la Puente, Pau Bascó i Conesa, Álvaro Hernández Ruiz, Deel Jori de Miguel, José Maria Murriel Tejada, Àlex Tola and Prados.

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03. Adobant l’arquitectura II. (Fertilising architecture II)
Cooperative organisation and the professional world. 

Adobant l’arquitectura is the second book in the SOTRES series, by Arabag, an architecture cooperative and Pol·len editions.

Seasoning architecture means enriching it, seasoning it to give it a special taste. Is it possible to season it with the values of the social and solidarity economy?

This is the challenge we have set ourselves in this first edition of the course ‘Cooperative organization and the professional world’. And in this book you will find the texts and images resulting from this process.

​They write in this book: Simona Cerri, Jordi Mitjans and Adrià Vilajoana (Arqbag), Jordi Garcia (L’Apòstrof), Montse Lamata (Ensó), Ivan Miró (La ciutat invisible), Roser Casanovas (Collectiu Punt 6), Amadeu Santacana (ETSAV-UPC). And from @Coop_etsav: Clara Alsedà Rodríguez, Chloé Borreguero Boleis, Núria Rondón Clemente, Emma Sebastia Sarroca, Alba Morcillo Sans, Carmen Chacón Hermoso, Christian Fernandes Coelho, Pere Forner Rovira, Irati Goikoetxea Fanega, Pau Heras Baldi, David Palma Marimon , Sila Alarcón, Laura Bifet, Joana Busquet, Yelena Znamenskaya, Mireia Segura Soler, Ainhoa Bobis Cid, Óscar Rodriguez Urbano, Pau Admella Aymerich, Julia Reñones de la Puente, Pau Bascó i Conesa, Álvaro Hernández Ruiz, Deel Jori de Miguel, José Maria Murriel Tejada, Àlex Tola and Prados

I want it!