From a converted ship-sail factory to a housing cooperative built from cross-laminated timber, here's a look at five significant projects by the emerging architecture collective Lacol.
The 14-strong group of Spanish architects (above) came together as students in Barcelona in 2009 and today operate as an architecture cooperative that strives for social and environmental justice through the design of sustainable community infrastructure.
Lacol is also tackling the lack of affordable homes in Barcelona through the development of housing cooperatives that offer residents ownership and control.

"We work to generate community infrastructures for the sustainability of life, as a key tool for the eco-social transition, through architecture, cooperativism and participation," said Lacol member Núria Vila. "We started in 2009 as architecture students renting a space to work on our academic projects," she told Dezeen. "Then we founded a collective and started collaborating with neighbourhood associations and cooperatives in Sants, Barcelona, where our studio is located."
Lacol's female partners were recently named as the winners of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at this year's W Awards for women in architecture in recognition of their efforts to take "architecture out of the traditional client-user commissioning relationship by politicising it".
The group hopes that through its future work and recognition in the W Awards, it...