Oasis del Jarama Community
A natural housing community on the banks of the Jarama River, in Madrid
Oasis del Jarama, the natural housing community Light Humanity is promoting in Madrid
The Oasis del Jarama Community is a natural housing project on the banks of the River Jarama, in Madrid, run by Light Humanity's Ecosocial Innovation Lab. It began in 2025 and is ongoing.
- What it is: a natural housing community.
- Where: on the banks of the Jarama River, in Madrid.
- People: Gala, political scientist María Roca —also on the Solar Crowd team— and Eugenio García-Calderón Huerta, founder of Light Humanity.
- In the same area: the Villabosque community, in Villaviciosa de Odón (Madrid), and the Ikigaia community, in Málaga.
On the banks of the Jarama, the only biological corridor crossing Madrid from north to south
The community takes its name from the river on whose banks it stands. This is what Wikipedia says about the Jarama:
- Tributary of the Tagus: it rises in the foothills of Peña Cebollera and is one of the most important tributaries of the Tagus.
- Between Guadalajara and Madrid: it crosses the eastern half of the Community of Madrid, and some of its stretches form the boundary between the two provinces.
- A natural corridor: the Jarama and its surroundings form the only biological corridor crossing the Community of Madrid from north to south and play a key role in its ecological balance.
Oasis del Jarama, one of the Lab's six housing projects
The Lab's Housing area also includes these projects:
Urban design, minimal dwellings and ecological houses
- Organic Urban Design: the design of family and neighborhood communities and of interconnected, self-sufficient villages and cities. It can be explored in 3D on Humanity.wiki.
- Minimum Viable Homes: development of self-sufficient minimal dwellings.
- Ecological House Factory: support for the entrepreneurial venture behind Econhouse ecological houses.
Two other communities: Villabosque and Ikigaia
- Villabosque Community and Ecovillage: an estate and meeting place in Villaviciosa de Odón (Madrid).
- Ikigaia Community: a project combining a community, a school, an entrepreneurship space and an ecovillage in Málaga.