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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 turning the interior space into a forgotten\u00a0 back area, making it the center of the social meeting of its inhabitants as well as a place worth seeing. The day spaces of the apartments face the plaza, hence generating activity in its surrounding facades. The access was designed by breaking the block in two of its corners, creating\u00a0 diagonal space tension. The entrance to the apartments passes through this intermediate space, activating it and generating the necessary neighborhood relationship. The plaza was designed with a slight slope that absorbs the natural inclination of the site and gently links all\u00a0 the levels of access and main entrances. The landscaped green areas are slightly higher, containing the spaces for the exclusive use of the ground floor apartments, separating them from the public circulation areas. The space is built with concrete blocks of varying porosity, low concrete walls, which serve both as a plant container and as a\u00a0 bench, and native grass and groups of bamboo plants.
\nThe dual nature of the project results in a double material configuration. On the one hand the urban face materializes in steel and brings back the more industrial and mining image of Mieres,\u00a0 the former main economic engine of the city. Once inside the building\u00a0 we looked for a rural reference, a return to nature and the origins of the site, the Asturian traditional porch, the use of wood, which reminds us,\u00a0 through its vertical rhythms, of the forests of the nearby mountains.
\nThe outer skin serves as facade and cover at the same time.\u00a0 It is built with panels of dark gray steel corrugated sheets, and is treated as a protective shell and as a continuous rugged casing in which the edges are rounded. The inside of the building has a double skin,\u00a0 a transparent\u00a0 one formed by large windows that define the inner space of the apartments, and another one composed of movable wooden shutters that characterize the terraces, allowing the user\u00a0 to control solar radiation and have the necessary degree of privacy at all times. The housing units share\u00a0 the urban and rural vision of the project.
\nThey have double orientation enabling cross ventilation and view. The houses are organized by means of a central core of bathrooms that divides them into day and night spaces. The daytime areas face the inner plaza and have large windows to profit from the valuable sunlight\u00a0 in Asturias, while the night areas, with more controlled openings and equipped with blinds, face the city. The housing units were generated adding up consecutive 2.60 meters modules ,\u00a0 providing one, two, three and four bedroom units, thereby responding to the multiple types of apartments required. The terrace, one meter deep, is presented as a visual and spatial extension of the apartment. It is intended to serve as an\u00a0 exterior gallery made of wooden planks bordering the entire inner perimeter of the building. A radiant floor system with centralized heat production and individual distribution has been installed, completed with a simple home domotic system which, among other features, allows control of the facility.\u00a0 The building also captures solar energy through the panels installed on the flat roofs to support partly\u00a0 the production of hot water. The structural underground system consists of a large slab of foundation and a structure of concrete walls and pillars. Above the ground the system is mixed, based on one-way concrete slabs on standardized tubular supports and\u00a0 steel bracings which allowed faster implementation, and greater economy and clearness of the space.<\/p>\n