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One of the most interesting characteristics that you notice once you get to Mieres Social Housing is that despite being in the middle of an urban building mass, you can find limited views of the fields and meadows in the valley located in the higher part of the surrounding mountains. Our first aim was to recover this double quality of the place, making the project urban and rural at the same time.
Courtesy of Zigzag Arquitectura – Photographs : Roland Halbe
It was essential to model the rigid traditional urban block of seven different heights to end up building a new volume of variable heights (three to seven stories), containing the complete residential program required. The rest of the program (storage rooms, garage and facilities) was designed in a common underground basement. We wanted the building to match the environment, voids and cuttings which allowed the view of the mountains in the empty spaces between the buildings, fragments of the Asturian landscape in the distance, enabling the sun and the air to enter the inner space at the same time. Courtesy of Zigzag Arquitectura – Section

We proposed a return to the origins of the site. An inner world that takes us back to the fields that could no longer be seen, an urban room with fragmented borders, attracting the inhabitants of Mieres through its doors, open to the city. Opening the block was another of our priorities, and we managed to avoid tur...