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The Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a public body attached to the Department of Mobility and Housing of the Government of the Balearic Islands, whose main objective is the promotion and social rental of protected housing since 1986.
IBAVI collaborates occasionally with other organizations in the management of subsidies or mortgage guarantees, among other actions, all of them aimed at facilitating and improving access to housing for the residents of this community. It also manages the public housing stock of the Balearic Islands, which in 2019 was 1,753 subsidized rental homes. At this moment, there are 1,118 new homes in different phases: completed, under construction, or in the drafting phase of a project with financing for the works. These 46 developments, adapted to the scale of island urban centers, follow the principles of Life Reusing Posidonia, a project funded by the European LIFE+ program for Nature Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation Projects, and which has received the 2021 LIFE Award for the Best Environmental Project by the European Commission.
If we add the homes provided by other procedures, the objective is to currently increase the housing stock to 3,000 units. The hope is that the increase in this public housing stock never stops under two essential premises: facing the housing emergency and, at the same time, the climate emergency. Most of these housing projects have been designed by external studies, through competitions or public tenders. These practices include teams of professional architects—both experienced and emerging young people—who constitute examples of the new architectural language that complies with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This unique model prioritizes maximum comfort from passive criteria to reduce energy poverty, accentuate the use of materials with a low CO2 footprint, preferably local, and incorporate gender perspective criteria in the design, all in search of the highest architectural quality. . Paradoxically, this new language, in the insular Mediterranean context, arises from recovering, updating and adapting one's own cultural heritage to contemporary needs.
IBAVI's work has been published and exhibited widely, and has received several awards (such as the AR Emerging Award in 2022).
