Borda Nova I is a public housing development on Carrer Terra Vella in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, intended to add 44 homes to the country’s affordable-rent housing stock. The Government of Andorra agreed to transfer the completed building to the National Housing Institute (INH), which oversees access, allocation and management of homes in the public affordable-rental programme.1
The building has nine floors above ground and six basement levels. Its 44 apartments comprise 15 one-bedroom, 23 two-bedroom and six three-bedroom homes. Each apartment is assigned one vehicle parking space; the building also has around 200 car spaces and 20 motorcycle spaces, with most surplus spaces to be transferred to the parish council for management. The ground floor includes one commercial unit for the council and two spaces for building services.1
The project’s origins date to March 2020, when the Andorra la Vella parish council gave the land to the Government free of charge under a protocol for public facilities. The Government undertook to build public rental housing there. The Government article identifies Conxita Marsol, then minister responsible for housing, as the proponent of the transfer to the INH. It does not name a private developer or construction company.1
Borda Nova I is described by the Government as the first building in Andorra’s public housing stock built to passive-house criteria, with the stated aim of making the building energy self-sufficient. The Government reported that adding its 44 apartments would bring the public housing stock to 266 homes in 2026.1