Vivazz, Mieres Social Housing / Zigzag Arquitectura

Javier Gaete — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most interesting characteristics that you notice once you get to the place 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. 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.

151 Homes, Shops And Garage In Mieres / Amann Canovas Maruri

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This project is produced in a context were the volume of the building is previously strictly define by urban regulations so the exterior form is not a problem to be considered, - thanks! – For this reason it is possible to concentrate the design energy in other conditions. In this case in the specific study of the functional variables of housing: type.

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Vivazz, Mieres Social Housing / Zigzag Arquitectura

151 Homes, Shops And Garage In Mieres / Amann Canovas Maruri